Screen Grab Tips
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Some advice needed. Ive got Lexx on DVD and wish to know what the best way to grab some images when I play the DVDs on my PC DVD player. I have Power DVD and PC Friendly. What do I need to do? If I press Print Screen I get a clipboard full of nothing. Any help appreciated.
Sorry, I don’t know how to help you. I use a Pinnacle DC1000 videocard and Adobe Premier.
I’ve never bothered to figure out how to do it the cheap way. I imagine that copy-protection technology hinders your efforts.
If there is an image you want from any of the 2nd series DVDs, let me know. I don’t have the first 3rd series DVD yet.
1) Find image you want
2) Press “Print Screen” aka “Print Scrn”
3) Goto any imaging program, ms paint, kodak imaging or my weaponof choice irfanview.
4) Press (ctrl and V) or paste
5) The image of whatever was on your screen at the time should come upquote:
Originally posted by JumpingJedi:
Some advice needed. Ive got Lexx on DVD and wish to know what the best way to grab some images when I play the DVDs on my PC DVD player. I have Power DVD and PC Friendly. What do I need to do? If I press Print Screen I get a clipboard full of nothing. Any help appreciated.
Unfortunately JJ with PC friendly there is no way to capture images off a DVD. The print screen thing doesn’t work for moving images. However you might look at the software you got with your DVD ROM. It might have come with a program called Cyberlink. Now that program will let you snap images off any DVD you are watching. It will save them automatically to what ever directory you want. So I suggest you try and use that program. Hey that’s what I used to make all my vid caps. Hope that helps.
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This is how I do screen captures from a DVD, but you need to have the right gear. You need a TV Tuner card on your computer, an external DVD player, and a program that can screen capture (I use PaintShopPro 7). Input your DVD player to you TV Tuner Card and run the screen capture program. The DVD is viewed in a window and it gives great control of the screen captures.
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Originally posted by JumpingJedi:
Some advice needed. Ive got Lexx on DVD and wish to know what the best way to grab some images when I play the DVDs on my PC DVD player. I have Power DVD and PC Friendly. What do I need to do? If I press Print Screen I get a clipboard full of nothing. Any help appreciated.
I use an old version of PowerDVD. Its a software based DVD playback program. It has a button for taking screenshots to .bmp format. Very easy to do.
The Alt+PrnScrn probably wont work in windows because the DVD playback is an OverLay and thus when you paste it into an image program, nothing will show up but a grey background.
Im sure you can find Warez versions of PowerDVD or WinDVD. Theres also various cracks for evaluation version of WinDVD.
I’ve also got Power DVD, this one has got a screenshot button, but it’s probably an older version.
Another way, is if you know someone who has Corel Draw, the package comes with a capture facility, which will let you capture from almost anything, although I’ve never tried it with DVD.
Adobe may have something similar, but it’s not advanced as Corel, so I’m not sure whether it has it.
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Originally posted by Squishy:
I’ve also got Power DVD, this one has got a screenshot button, but it’s probably an older version.
Another way, is if you know someone who has Corel Draw, the package comes with a capture facility, which will let you capture from almost anything, although I’ve never tried it with DVD.
Adobe may have something similar, but it’s not advanced as Corel, so I’m not sure whether it has it.
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I don’t know about Corel Draw, but you can’t screen capture with Adobe Photoshop. Somehow I doubt that you’ll be able to use Corel Draw either.
I think Evil_Lister suggested the best idea so far. (Mine is almost fool-proof but it’s expensive.)
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