What program do you use for screen caps?

Golden Boy · Post by **Golden Boy** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:59 am

monkeyboy wrote:<--- not the brightest monkey around.

GB what is VLC stand for?

hey stu,
VLC stands for VideoLAN Client, but the official name is VLC Media Player. you can get it for free at www.macdownloads.com. it can play virtually anything.

gb

Krafty · Post by **Krafty** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 12:15 pm

Golden Boy wrote:[VLC Media Player] can play virtually anything.

But it may have problems with some .mkv encoded vidz. I've had problems playing 5 or 6 anime with this player as it sometimes crashes when the subtitles are turned on. This happened again today which is why it's at the forefront of my mind.
I doubt it's a problem with my hardware configuration even though I know I'm pushing my CPU and Graphics card at times

To be sure of playing all your vidz, let alone taking screen caps from them, I'd reccomend you have at least 2 or 3 media players on your computer with the latest codecs.

buma · Post by **buma** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 12:16 pm

Golden Boy wrote:there are many ways to do the same thing, this is just my lazy person's suggestion :
after step 2., you can set your crop tool to 640 pixels wide, 480 pixels high and 72 dpi (or whatever dimensions you require). then apply it to your picture. you can also save and name these crop settings so that next time all you have to do is open the image, choose crop tool, select the preset and crop accordingly. voila!

gb

um, won't it just crop (cut off) the picture down to that dimension insead of resize it? or am I missing a funciton of crop that allows you to do this? hmm, might have to try this method when I get a chance

Miz cucky wrote:yeah so for just looking at a pretty picture, I've never had to resize anything. So it depends on how you capture it i guess.

depends on what you're using as a source material and how it's accessed - if its from dvd and you're doing a screen capture by hitting the 'print screen' method or something similar, then no, most likely that image will be properly proportioned. If you're using an AVI / MKV or other downloaded type source, then no, you don't have to do this step either regardless of how you capture (because these sources have already been resized to the proper proportion).

if you use dvd footage and use something that accesses the actual source video data (such as virtualdubmod or most software dvd player screencap functions that I'm familiar with), you will have to resize because the video image data has not been adjusted for play on your computer screen (and hence, you get the 'wide-faced' look like the first image in my previous post).

If I can find a copy of PowerDVD, I'll give it a try and see what kind of image I get out of it

Golden Boy · Post by **Golden Boy** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:25 pm

buma wrote:um, won't it just crop (cut off) the picture down to that dimension insead of resize it? or am I missing a funciton of crop that allows you to do this? hmm, might have to try this method when I get a chance

hi buma,
my apologies. i mis-read the intent of what you were trying to do. you are correct, what i wrote earlier only crops to those dimensions. it does not re-scale to those dimensions like you were explaining earlier. if i find a "lazy" way to do it, i'll pass it on.

sorry for the confusion!

gb

logorzat · Post by **logorzat** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:42 pm

Thank you everyone for your help. I was able to make screen caps easily with Windows Media Player.

hyelakingsfan · Post by **hyelakingsfan** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:46 pm

With Windows Media Player? I cant find the save image thingy. All i have is ....

monkeyboy · Post by **monkeyboy** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:05 pm

Thank you Lemar!

I've downloaded that program.

I thought there was something I didn't know about the built-in DVD player on my Mac.

Thank you for the info too Krafty, if I have problems I know it may not be my fault.