movies to stills

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I want to capture some still photos from a dvd I havee of home movies made
from an 8mm. is this possible?
 
If you have PowerDVD or WinDVD, they include the option to capture still
images at any point in the DVD that you like.
 
colleenc said:
I want to capture some still photos from a dvd I havee of home movies made
from an 8mm. is this possible?
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If you don't have a program to capture screen images, you may download
the free Gadwin PrintScreen 3.5 at http://www.gadwin.com/ . Click the
download tab at the top of the page, and you will find the free
PrintScreen near the bottom of the download page.

Now play your movie on any player you have and use the pause button to
pause the movie where you wish. Or you can capture still images you
have. The PrintScreen program allows you to adjust the area captured,
so take a little time to read all of the instructions. When you are
ready, you just hit the Print Screen on your keyboard. You have an
option to zoom in and out and to select an area. When satisfied, you
just click the continue output button that appears on screen. The
capture is stored where you specify when you set up the program at
first. If you have PaintShop, or some other image program, you can
process the image captured in many ways, if you like.
 
cwdjrxyz said:
If you don't have a program to capture screen images, you may download
the free Gadwin PrintScreen 3.5 at http://www.gadwin.com/ . Click the
download tab at the top of the page, and you will find the free
PrintScreen near the bottom of the download page.

Now play your movie on any player you have and use the pause button to
pause the movie where you wish. Or you can capture still images you
have. The PrintScreen program allows you to adjust the area captured,
so take a little time to read all of the instructions. When you are
ready, you just hit the Print Screen on your keyboard. You have an
option to zoom in and out and to select an area. When satisfied, you
just click the continue output button that appears on screen. The
capture is stored where you specify when you set up the program at
first. If you have PaintShop, or some other image program, you can
process the image captured in many ways, if you like.
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Gadwin is a useful freebie for screen shots
but it does not work for video capture.

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Digital Image
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This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
Play the video in Windows Media Player.

Press Ctrl+I at the point where you want to take the still. Save the image.
 
John said:
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Gadwin is a useful freebie for screen shots
but it does not work for video capture.
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No, Gadwin works just fine to capture a still from a movie playing from
a DVD on a computer, which is what the poster seems to want to do. To
make absolutely certain, I played a movie with the WMP11. I then paused
the movie at the point where I wished to capture the still. The frame
still appeared where the movie was paused, and Gadwin had no trouble
capturing it. It also worked on 5 movie capable programs other than
WMP11 that I have. Gadwin is available for MS OSs, including some
rather old ones. It works on the usual DVD VOB files as well as more
compressed movie formats suited for the web including some .wmv, .rm,
and .mov files. If I remember correctly, someone with a MAC OS
attempted to download Gadwin, and it would not work on the MAC.
 
cwdjrxyz said:
No, Gadwin works just fine to capture a still from a movie playing
from a DVD on a computer, which is what the poster seems to want to
do. To make absolutely certain, I played a movie with the WMP11. I
then paused the movie at the point where I wished to capture the
still. The frame still appeared where the movie was paused, and
Gadwin had no trouble capturing it. It also worked on 5 movie capable
programs other than WMP11 that I have. Gadwin is available for MS
OSs, including some rather old ones. It works on the usual DVD VOB
files as well as more compressed movie formats suited for the web
including some .wmv, .rm, and .mov files. If I remember correctly,
someone with a MAC OS attempted to download Gadwin, and it would not
work on the MAC.
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Gadwin is not for video capture.
Look at your saved screen shots
*after* the player is closed.

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John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
John said:
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Gadwin is not for video capture.
Look at your saved screen shots
*after* the player is closed.
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I did, and everyone else can see it at one of my domains at
http://www.cwdjr.net/picmisc/ScreenShot001.jpg . The capture is from an
about 50 year old French movie, that is hardly state of the art today.
Not bad for a free program, and plenty good enough for a DVD that the
poster made from old 8 mm movies. Of course I don't usually use Gadwin
to capture a still from a modern high resolution movie. I select a
section of the VOB file containing the portion of interest, convert to
a high resolution format suitable for video editing, and examine frame
by frame until I find the best one. However I would hardly suggest
buying hundreds of dollars of video programs for someone wanting to get
a still or two from a DVD derived from an 8 mm movie!
 
Thanks for the example.

Last night all the screen shots I tried
with Gadwin were coming out black
but today they are the expected images.
I don't know what made the difference.

Thanks for convincing me that it works.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
control and i (press "control" first, and press "i" without releasing
"control", release both)
 
colleenc said:
I tried this process and my picture came out black. Suggestions?
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Initially, mine were black also but I found that
if I pause the movie first...the screen shots
come out as expected. Try it again.....

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
colleenc said:
I tried this process and my picture came out black. Suggestions?
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The Gadwin PrintScreen has many options that can confuse a bit at
first, but they are of use once you use the program a while. I am going
to give you details of how to configure the program to capture from a
selcted box on the screen. Then I will give instructions for the
capture with this configuration. Then later you can change options for
other types of capture, if you wish.

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CONFIGURE GADWIN PRINTSCREEN FOR CAPTURE FROM A SELECTED BOX AREA

1. Right click Gadwin icon at bottom right of screen at system tray(you
may have to expand this to see icon). When you hover the cursor over
the correct icon for Gadwin, it will tell you what it is.

2. Click properties from list that comes up.

3. Select preferences tab at top and:
# be surehot key is set as print screen;
# check notify at end of capture box;
# check preview the captured image box;
# check show splash on startup box;
# check run at windows startup box

4. Select Source tab and:
# check select rectangular area box;
# make sure no other boxes checked

5. Select destination tab and:
# check copy captured area to file;
# check automatic naming;
# select use screen shot as file name;
# use C: as the capture directory;
# be sure everything else not checked

6. Select Image tab and:
# select JPEG as the type of image;
# set JPEG quality as 100;
# be certain nothing else checked.

The above will not have to be changed until you wish to use some other
type of capture

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CAPTURE RECTANGULAR BOX IMAGE

# Start movie. WMP11 will work. Navigate to where you want to capture
and pause. Repeat if necessary.

# Hit PrintScreen key on right of keyboard.

# Ignore zoom window box in center of screen

# Move cursor to upper left of screen where you want to start drawing
box. Holding the mouse left button down all of the time, move the
cursor straight down to where you want the lower left corner of the box
and then move cursor to the right to where you want the bottom right
corner of the box. You now release the mouse button. Then move cursor
inside the box, hold left mouse button down, and move the box around to
fine tune the capture area.

# Right click outside of the box you made to bring up preview screen.
Adjust zoom control to fine tune the capture you want.

# Click the continue box on the preview screen. If all went well, there
should be a popup that says the capture was made.

# Go to your C drive and find a file named screen shot. This should be
your captured image.

All of the above can be done very fast once you do it a few times.

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