Trouble saving a screen capture from a DVD Video

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Mr._Jan_Doddy
Sep 19, 2006
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Hello, we have a person in our fire company – sewyco-fc.org, that does our video work and I need to pull some images off the DVD’s he creates for our training and website. I usually just do "Print Screen", drop the file into "Paint", do a save-as, then adjust it in PS.

I don’t know much about video, however, I’m able to capture from Windows Media without a problem.

Here’s what happens when I do the "Print Screen" after pausing where needed; I paste the complete screen in "Paint", however, if you scroll the image, just the background moves, not the actual image I need. When I do the "Save-As" and open it up in PS, I will have the complete screen capture but the image area is black!

Here’s what I know – when I open the DVD, there’s 2 folders, 1 – Audio_TS and 1 Video_TS. In the Video folder there are 6 folders, and the last one is VTS_01_1.VOB and it is a 480MB file. This DVD will autoplay.
After that – I don’t know much more.

If I need another program to do this, please lead me in the right direction, also, if I need to change forums for more info, again, let me know.

Thanks for any advice!

Jan – Fire Captain, Se-Wy-Co Fire Co.
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Art Campbell
Sep 19, 2006
It’s possible the DVD is writing directly to the hardware…

Try downloading and trying SnagIt, a screen capture utility that should be able to capture the DVD player image…

Other screen capture utilities may also work; I use SnagIt, though, so I’m pretty sure it’d solve your problem.

Art
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Phosphor
Sep 19, 2006
Well, whadaya know! Another Pennsyltuckian!

You’re not too far from Forum regular Dave Milbut (Moscow, PA), and maybe only 90 minutes up the hill from me here in Lancaster.
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Mr._Jan_Doddy
Sep 20, 2006
Wow, small world!

I think I’m to the right of the hump of your hill – Lehigh Valley PA!

Anyway, I’ll try Art’s suggestion and report back later!

BTW, Art, what do you mean "the DVD is writing directly to the hardware"?

Thanks for the suggestion,

Jan
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stevent
Sep 20, 2006
By "the DVD is writing directly to the hardware", I think Art means Hardware Acceleration.

You need software DVD player to capture images with Snagit – pretty useless, as most DVD playback software (PowerDVD, WinDVD, etc) already have capture facilities (except WMP – to do with the way it uses directX).

VideoLan <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/> I think can capture from DVD.
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Mr._Jan_Doddy
Sep 21, 2006
Folks, Power DVD did it! Play your DVD, pause where you want, no fooling around, just hit "Capture" button! Open "Paint" save it and go from there – open PS to crop – adjust – what ever!

And there you have it!

How sweet is that!

Thanks for everyones input.

Jan
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dave_milbut
Sep 23, 2006
why are you going into paint first? best to go right into photoshop.

also in power dvd there’s a couple capture options you might find useful. you can (1) save to clipboard (which is the default and it sounds like that’s what you’re doing), in which case you have to copy to another program and save, or 2) you can save to power dvd’s internal browser (a dog and i don’t recommend it) or 3) save right to files in a folder you select. (then you can open them later in the program of your choice after you do all your captures).

I generally save to tif or bmp files (iirc, there are about 7 or 8 file types you can save as) as i seem to get the best image quality from those and both are "lossless". (aside: don’t save as jpg files until your done editing because jpg compression discards data to make files smaller, and that causes the images to degrade). then i use explorer or adobe bridge to browse for which images i want to edit. this is useful because you can bracket the picture (take several snaps before and after the in the scene you’re trying to capture and then use the best capture). step one frame foreward in power dvd (the "T" key) and capture (the "C" key) is a useful combo when "bracketing" to get the best image from a series…

hth, dave

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