How to get screen captures from my DVD?

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1

I just got a DVD of a friend’s wedding. I was unable to go to the ceremony and don’t have any pictures, so I got the idea that I could pause the DVD on my computer and take screen captures of some frames. Problem is I have no idea how to do it. I’m running an iMac OSX Panther and I’m just using the DVD player program that comes with the computer. I tried doing an Apple-Shift-3 to take a screen cap while it was paused, but that didn’t work. Going through the menu of the program doesn’t seem to offer a screen cap option.

Is there a way to do this, or will I have to try to find someone to beg copies of photos off of?

2

I don’t know anything about Apple computers but on the PC PowerDVD and WinDVD can capture frames to mpeg files.

Maybe if you have a friend with a PC running either of these programs they might do it for you.

3

In your applications folder there is a Utilities folder, and in there should be a program called ‘Grab.’ You can use that to grab a picture of what’s on your screen, in the current active window, or whatever portion of your screen you select with your mouse curser.

Just pause your movie and ‘Grab’ what you’d like.

If you’re watching the DVD in full screen mode, it might be difficult to access Grab, so you’ll have to play the DVD in a window.

4

The Grab feature works great. Thanks! :slight_smile:

5

Well, would you look at that? And here I was opening the DVD with VLC and cmd-shift-3ing from there.

6

How primitive! That is like, so OS 9! :stuck_out_tongue: