Technical Question

[paraka]

Hey, so I want to try and make some icons, but I have one slight problem. I can't find any screencaps for them. I'm willing to make my own but while many of my media players *say* they can do screencaps, they don't seem to want to. I don't get any windows asking me where I'd like to save them, and looking at the files for the programs turns up nothing.

So, for the people on my flist that make screencaps (I'm looking at you munchkinofdoom), what programs do you use?

Barring that, can anyone point me to a place where there are good quality screencaps for S5 of SGA? I want to make a Woolsey icon.

Comments

[munchkinofdoom.livejournal.com]

It depends on what type of file you are screencapping.

If I'm screencapping mpegs or directly from a dvd, I use WinDVD. I can litally shuttle forward frame by frame, which gives me control over what I'm capping.

For avi's I prefer to use VLC. Under Preferences, click on Video and you'll see a browse button for choosing where you want to save your Snapshots to.

VLC has an auto-snapshooting option if you want it, but I've never used it. I prefer to control the screenapping myself.

VLC doesn't give you a snapshotting button. You need to pause the image where you want to screencap, right-click your mouse, and click on Snapshot. You'll then get a small image of your snapshot in the upper left corner and text saying where it has been saved to.

I'm a bit anal retentive about screencapping, so I tend to go for big files - like the 720p mkv files - convert them to avi using Super and then screencap them with VLC as it retains the original size of the image, where WinDVD often produces a smaller image.

I get much better results editing a large hi-res HD file capped from an avi.

[paraka]

Oh cool, I already have VLC and I'm using .avi files, so I'll try that. Thanks so much!