Screen gabs

[mrporter51]

Can anyone recommend a programme which will let me grab a still frame from a dvd as a Jpg. Hopefully a free programme.

[Jacques]

Microsoft?s MovieMaker 2

Go through the process to capture the video that includes the frame you want to grab, then select it in the content pane (the one that shows the thumbnail of the first frame of the video). Using the controls below the preview window (the one on the right that shows the video itself), move through the clip until you find the frame you want to grab and pause. Then go to the Tools menu and select Take Picture from Preview, and tell it where to save the file. You can now send the captured frame (which will have a resolution 640 by 480 pixels) by email or load it into any paint program and do what you want with it.

For reasons best known to Microsoft, if you use the timeline to capture an image, you get a lower resolution image.

Or VirtualDub

For a deinterlaced 720 x 480 frame grab go to "Video" select "Copy Source Frame to Clipboard" (CTRL +1) then paste to whatever image editor you have.

Both free.

[MacD]

The Mac version of MPEG Streamclip does a very easy job of taking frame grabs from VOB files. I don't know if the Windows version works in the same way, but if you want to have a look (it's free) ?

[mrporter51]

Thanks for your help, but I have just been told you can take a screen shot using powerdvd.