I’m trying to capture DVD stills to make LiveJournal user icons out of, but I’m having a hell of time. I downloaded at least three programs that claim to capture, but I can’t get a centered pic to save my life. Off-center, blacked out, whatever. Nothing that I can use.
So how do I do this? All I want to do is make a paused DVD frame into a .jpg or .gif. How is this done? Please help!
The only prog that I ever got to make that is PowerDVD 5 as player, it has a screencap feature that saves the images as .bmp files.
The program’s on my work computer, but it’s something like InterVideo, or InterDVD, or something. It came with the computer (i.e., with the DVD drive that was installed), and has screen capture ability.
Also, I forgot - you might want to download the demo of Snag-It (one of the great software programs of all time). Never tried it with a DVD movie, but, for instance, I know if can capture Flash-movie frames.
Thank you all for the suggestions. PowerDVD did it! Thank you, Bubba Ray!
sings to self…“I have Sordid Lives icons! I have Sordid Lives icons!”
I also use PowerDVD for capturing screen images, but since the .bmp files it creates are huge (about 1 MB), I open them in Photoshop and convert them to something else, usually jpeg, which will reduce the size to a more manageable 200-300 KB.
Actually, I’m just capturing to clipboard then saving as a .gif with ImageForge. Then I make an animated gif out of them (usually just a still behind changing text).
The icons I’ve made so far are the animated ones on this page.
Sounds like you’re referring to InterVideo’s WinDVD player, which I have on my computer.
I’ve looked around for a screen capture function on that software and can’t find it. Can you help me with that? I’m interested in doing some screen captures myself.