If I'm running a DVD on my computer, is it possible to create jpg images from the live picture? I'd like to incorporate some of the different images in my website. I have Adobe Photoshop CS, but it doesn't seem to have any live motion capture capabilities (unless I'm missing it).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I've used a program called "any capture screen", you can download a trial version online and it's really a pain. I hate it.

If you use PowerDVD to play your DVD, there's a little camera icon on the bottom row of the control panel. Pause the DVD at the frame you want, (it does do frame by frame) and hit the camera icon. It takes a bmp.

That's the only 2 programs I have, the power dvd is kind of fuzzy and the any capture is too hard for me to figure out.

This is about as clear as I can get with power dvd

Use your video playback software to playback. Make sure you are in full screen mode and then pause the video at the point you want to capture. Wait until your pause menu disappears (or get rid of it manually). Then, hit "Print Screen" and you will copy the screen capture to your clipboard. Just open a new CS doc (CS will properly size it based on the size in your clipboard) and "Paste". Nothing to it.

That sounds a million times easier than what I use. Please Treat me like an idiot and explain what you do after you hit print screen? I tried that and couldn't find where it went.

It really isn't legal to take a screenshot of a movie from a DVD.

Can it be done? certainly! You may get a msg pop-up on your screen once you try to hit the screen capture button telling you . Your challenge is to figure out how to do it.

It's my own DVD. That stupid cat is my sister's cat. I'd like a clearer pic than the one I got from power dvd. Yooper's way sounds easier.

When you hit "Print Screen" it is the same as copying it. It saves it in the clipboard memory space. All you have to do is "Paste" in whatever program you are using.

I use Power DVD which has a capture button. I also can import with Pinnacle and capture images with that.

Get yourself a strong magnifying glass and a teenie, tiny pair of scissors...

If you have a Gateway laptop, Power DVD should come installed with it.

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Originally posted by da Yooper:
When you hit "Print Screen" it is the same as copying it. It saves it in the clipboard memory space. All you have to do is "Paste" in whatever program you are using.

I am by no means knowledgable in this area, but don't you have to hit "Alt" and "Print Screen" at the same time in order to save it to your clipboard??

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Originally posted by da Yooper:
Use your video playback software to playback. Make sure you are in full screen mode and then pause the video at the point you want to capture. Wait until your pause menu disappears (or get rid of it manually). Then, hit "Print Screen" and you will copy the screen capture to your clipboard. Just open a new CS doc (CS will properly size it based on the size in your clipboard) and "Paste". Nothing to it.

Edit: What Cheezers said.

I'm currently reading my Maximum PC magazine and it mentions using a program called SnagIt which is available from www.techsmith.com

Looks like you get a free trial but then it's $39.99 after that.

Snag It is what we used at work for capturing screen shots that we wanted to use to create manuals. It works fine.

ALT + Print Screen will work. The ALT key take a screenshot of ONLY the active window. If you just hit Print Screen button only, then that takes a screenshot of your entire desktop.

I just have Works and WordPadon my home computer, not Word. I can do a Print Screen capture and paste it into Works or WordPad documents, but I can't crop a section of the picture like I think you can in Word. When I open any of my scanning, picture or art-related type programs, they only want to open stuff like .bmp, gif., .jpg files. They don't want to mess with a word processing document. Any ideas?