Screen Caps

anna.the.gentle

anna.the.gentle

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Anyone know how to make screen captures? Don't care if they're HQ or not. :D I want to learn how, lol. :D Not unless someone's willing to make screen caps of the BBC Version of LWW & Prince Caspian at least. (Most of you will be wondering "Why the BBC Version when there's the Walden Media one??!" .. My answer is: I need it for my gallery in FOA :p)

So, come on.. Anyone? :D
 
Miss The-Gentle...or may I call you Anna? :D

The ordinary way to make screen captures in Windows -- hitting print screen, then going to your favorite art program and pasting the contents of the clipboard -- won't work.

You just get a black square where the picture is. And this is not some form of copy protection. It's due to a technology called "video overlay" that allows movies to share space with regular programs on your screen.

There are DVD playback programs, such as POWER DVD, that have a screen capture function. Often it is an icon that looks like a camera or a keystroke sequence. These almost invariably save the pictures as BMP files...which have no compression and are HUGE by storage standards. A JPEG image that would store neatly in about 500 K would make a 4 Meg bitmap, EIGHT TIMES as big for an image that most people couldn't tell apart.

So after you do your capturing, you need to load the BMP files in your favorite editor (or the free one that came with windows) and using SAVE AS, pick JPEG so your website won't be overwhelmed and your viewers overtaxed.

To the best of my knowledge, Windows Media Player, REAL Video and Quicktime do not have this feature. I may be wrong about Quicktime Pro but I'm not paying the registration fee just to find out.

Hope that helps.
 
EveningStar said:
Miss The-Gentle...or may I call you Anna? :D

The ordinary way to make screen captures in Windows -- hitting print screen, then going to your favorite art program and pasting the contents of the clipboard -- won't work.

You just get a black square where the picture is. And this is not some form of copy protection. It's due to a technology called "video overlay" that allows movies to share space with regular programs on your screen.

There are DVD playback programs, such as POWER DVD, that have a screen capture function. Often it is an icon that looks like a camera or a keystroke sequence. These almost invariably save the pictures as BMP files...which have no compression and are HUGE by storage standards. A JPEG image that would store neatly in about 500 K would make a 4 Meg bitmap, EIGHT TIMES as big for an image that most people couldn't tell apart.

So after you do your capturing, you need to load the BMP files in your favorite editor (or the free one that came with windows) and using SAVE AS, pick JPEG so your website won't be overwhelmed and your viewers overtaxed.

To the best of my knowledge, Windows Media Player, REAL Video and Quicktime do not have this feature. I may be wrong about Quicktime Pro but I'm not paying the registration fee just to find out.

Hope that helps.
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LOL -- call me Anna or Marga, I don't really mind. :D

Hey, thanks! :D Only one problem -- I don't have that program. O_O' But I'll see where I can find it. XD Thanks, buddy! :D
 
You can also download for free kmplayer. To screencap in it you just need to press CTRL + A and you can even hold the buttons and it will screencap every frame of the movie :D
 
EveningStar said:
You just get a black square where the picture is. And this is not some form of copy protection. It's due to a technology called "video overlay" that allows movies to share space with regular programs on your screen.
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Really?!?! :eek: I didn't know that :p I thought it was some form of copy protection. Wow. Interesting..
 
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