Dvd Screen Caps

[desert_rat]

Hey everyone,
Sorry if this has been posted before, but what do people use to get screen caps from DVDs? I'm currently using WinDVD on my laptop to watch the dvds, but when I do a screen cap the pictures are pretty blurry and not really a good representation of the actual video quality.

Is there a better way to get a screen cap that looks close to the DVD?

Thanks

[slayerdiabolus]

What might help is if you pause the DVD and then take the screencap. That way you can preview the image before you capture it to make sure it looks good!

[desert_rat]

I do pause before the screen cap, but maybe that's as good as it gets. I was just wondering if there was some killer ap out there that did screen caps that everyone was using.

[damage jackal]

this might be helpful: http://www.bootlegcoverart.com/forum/in ... opic=33011

[desert_rat]

cool - thanks for the help!

[sjmike]

I personally use PowerDVD, what I do is pause the video and then use the step forward or step backward options, then I take the screenshot. This moves the video either one frame forward or one frame backwards.

[MetDream]

When I use Power DVD I do the same, just take a ton of shots and then weed through them. The weeding through parts is the hard part, esp when you get a ton of great shots! I try to narrow it down to less than 20 before sending them off to the trader site I am helping get screens for and then leave it up to the owner to narrow it down from there!

Recently Power DVD decided to no longer work on my computer no matter what the freak I do, including removing all the registry values for the program, downloading it etc, so I was using a lap top to make the screens till the lap top decided to no longer recognize the DVD player. (I think I wore it out!) Talk about damn luck! So now I have been using windows media player and screen hunter. When I use the capture feature on screen hunter is freezes the frame and I decide to capture it or not. Pain in the ass and not as convenient as using power dvd, but one benefit is I am sending over less screens for the owner of the trader site to choose from, which pleases him!

[Dusan]

I use Virtual dub mod, for me its the best program to create screenshots

[MasterSandman II]

What I do is skipping through the video with PowerDVD and just hitting 'c" a few times whenever I think something is worth taking a screen... I end up with a shitload of screens per show, from which I have to pick 10 ('cause that's how my site is set up).

That's exactly what I do. I get a few blurry ones but then there are some great ones in there as well.

[shownomarcy]

I also use powerdvd.
and to convret I use Xnview. Thats cool I think, I select all the options: resize, convert to jpg etc.. save, and than always one click to convert the files to the standard form I like.