[*nie_nie*]

Hey there! I don't know if this is the right thread, but could someone please show me or teach me how to take caps of a video?
Do I need a certain program?
So if someone could help, I'd REALLY appreciate it!! Thanks!

-nie

[ae4azns]

Basic way of taking screenshots is the "print screen" key on your keyboard. Sometimes it's prt scn or of a similar abbreviation. After pressing that key open up paint or adobe photoshop and paste.

This is only good when you want to take one or two screenshots but if you want to take multiples screenshots while a video is playing you'll need a program such as screenshot utility (http://www.screenshot-utility.com/).

When taking screencaps of videos keep in mind they might come out black/blank where the video is suppose to be. You can fix this by going to "tools>options" in windows media player and decreasing the "video acceleration".

[awdark]

Media Player Classic

If you have problems the options page should look like this.


Weirdo who like Media Player 10

Go to options.

Drag the bar to Software acceleration. (NOTE I HATE this method. Most of the time people saying their video is laggy is because they did this)

Paste it into paint



VideoLan


Remeber to click save...

Pause and click or just click it.

See? it works.

>:o you want MORE caps?!
Virtual Dub





There you have it 156 screenshots.

[Cindi]

you could use BSplayer if u want to take caps, it's the easiest way to go, as demonstrated above, you could also use virtualdub

[pokeymochi]

personally i like iusing BSPlayer. All you do is open it up and paly it and press "p" whenever you want to cap and it'll be in the folder

[awdark]

Eh, I don't have BS player installed was too lazy to dl it... and it sounds easy to use. This way people can't ask about how to take caps.

[DaRkViEt73]

Image Grabber II - very hard to find freeware program that I just uploaded on Megaupload for you guys.

This is the program I use to make screenshots for all my videos that I encode & upload. It is highly recommended, very easy to use. But be warned, it works for alot of video formats EXCEPT for mpg files. For mpg files you have to let the video play in the program and then individually click on "snapshot" to capture individual frames which is a pain. For all other files like divx, xvid, asf or wmv... the program will automatically grab the frames for you at a regular interval without you having to play the video! I was afraid the picture might not fit on your screens so I did it as 4 columns but I normally have mine set at 5 columns to fit a screen resolution of 1280x1024. I love this program because it's so simple, so fast to capture good samples throughout a video and it has that professional look to it.

[ae4azns]

^^^ nice program but is the timestamp optional? I prefer this and screenshot utility because unlike the built-in screen captures in video players you don't have to go to the menu and click save screenshot every time.....real hassle especially when you want to take multiple screenshots at a time or different parts while watching. The virtual dub method is better but you have to go through and select sequences you want..

[DaRkViEt73]

Yes, timestamps are optional. All the labels like filename, size etc.. are optional as well. You can tell it how many columns you want and also how many pictures you wanna take. it'll automatically take the snapshots for you which normally takes like 10-20 secs to do. The only limitation is it doesn't seem to automatically search thru mpeg files. Instead it gets stuck on the first frame and you end up with 20 pictures of the first frame or whatever. So for mpegs you have to let it play and take individual snapshots yourself. Once you get used to it doing things automatically, having to do it "manually" for mpeg files becomes a real pain.

Edit: oh yeah, even the size of each individual snapshot can be changed to. I set mine on 200x150 and 5 columns so it displays nicely on a screen resolution of 1280x1024.

[erniehkwon]

Image Grabber II - very hard to find freeware program that I just uploaded on Megaupload for you guys.

This is the program I use to make screenshots for all my videos that I encode & upload. It is highly recommended, very easy to use. But be warned, it works for alot of video formats EXCEPT for mpg files. For mpg files you have to let the video play in the program and then individually click on "snapshot" to capture individual frames which is a pain. For all other files like divx, xvid, asf or wmv... the program will automatically grab the frames for you at a regular interval without you having to play the video! I was afraid the picture might not fit on your screens so I did it as 4 columns but I normally have mine set at 5 columns to fit a screen resolution of 1280x1024. I love this program because it's so simple, so fast to capture good samples throughout a video and it has that professional look to it.

Really appreciate the upload. That was so nice of you.

[*nie_nie*]

Thanks everyone! It helped a lot! I'll try most of the methods and see which one works best for me. =) Thanks again!!

-nie

[NASRI22]

you could use fraps and press F10 everytime u want to take a pic... so easy..

[happyroach]

All the aforementioned methods/programs work, but my favorite has to be Gom player: download

It plays every single file type out there and it handles the files very well. And it can cap every single type of file you play.

The caps themselves are easy to take (Ctrl + E) and easy to manage.

I used to use BSplayer to do caps before I found out about Gom. BSplayer is handy, but everytime you take a cap, the video gives a slight pause--not very comfortable for viewing. The same problem does not exist with Gom player.

Gom also has a better interface and better options than BSplayer.

If you have any questions concerning Gom, feel free to PM me~

[BishieAddict]

just installed the bs player.. where does the screen caps save to? with vlc i had to make a folder for the caps. i can't find that option in the bs player
nvm found it

[feje210]

hi there! could someone help me. i already know how to use caps by using GOM player... but my problem is how to post my caps in the thread that i like here in soompi? thank you in advance.

[awdark]

Upload the pics to imageshack or photbucket (many others, but those are most popular)
then put the link like this...

CODE

[img]http://soompi.com/awdark.jpg[/img]

where you put the URL to the picture between the IMG things.

[x kisekiboshi]

If you have KM Player you can take caps. Very easy too.

Click the C> Then there's about several options to choose to take caps.

Hope that helped.

[vic_taebin]

i;m sorry, but when taking caps from BSPLAYer, how do you know which folder the pictures go into? I cant seem to find it.

[jirappo.]

thanks awdark & DaRkViEt73. really appreciate it. (:

[aymei]

Question: Where is the folder that the screen capture is saved in when you press 'p' in BS player?