This guide is the first in a series on the Art of Video Capture, Clean-up, and Compression. This guide deals exclusively with the first step: Video Capture. Further guides will cover the remaining guides, and I encourage you to drop me a line with your suggestions for those articles. While many of the lessons to be learned in this guide apply to all platforms, this guide is written from the perspective of PC-based hardware, running Microsoft Windows (largely OS version agnostic).