Need video capture with overlay

I am looking for a video capture card or camera that I can use to capture video of a sample under test. Labview would be controlling the test and I would need to have the test parameters displayed as a text overlay on the captured video in real time.
What sort of capture device can I start/stop with Labview and also insert a text overlay as frames are captured? I would also prefer the frames to be built into some standard video format like AVI as they are captured.
I don't need to do any "vision" processing on the video. I just want to capture and save. I would like to capture using a firewire megapixel camera for higher resolution if possible.

Hi BDS,
From what I understand, you are looking for these hardware and software
capabilities:
- Use FireWire camera and/or framegrabber card
- Insert text overlay
- Create AVIs
If you would like to do image acquisition with a FireWire camera in LabVIEW, you
will need to use the NI-IMAQ for IEEE 1394 driver that comes bundled in the Vision Acquisition
Software. You can either plug the camera in directly to a computer
with a built-in FireWire port or use the PCI-8252 FireWire interface device
(which comes with the NI-IMAQ for IEEE 1394 driver). For information on
other framegrabber card options (for non-FireWire cameras), please see the NI Vision Hardware website.
The functions for creating AVIs are included in the Vision Acquisition
Software. The text overlays, however, are functions only found in our
image processing software, the Vision
Development Module. All these sites can be found on the main NI Machine Vision page; let me know if you
have any more questions after viewing this information.
Cheers,
Irene Chow
National Instruments
Applications Engineer

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