How to take clear DVD screen captures?

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  • stev0
    Confirmed User
    • Aug 2003
    • 6801
    #1

    How to take clear DVD screen captures?

    Anyone know what causes some DVD screen captures to turn out blurry? Or how to take clear ones?

    I'm not sure if it depends on your video card, or what... but sometimes they just turn out awful. Other times they're photo quality.
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    • KRL
      Entrepreneur
      • Oct 2002
      • 31429
      #2
      I think you need to have a screen recorder app to pull clear images off DVD's.
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        • Vox
          Confirmed User
          • Mar 2002
          • 2710
          #3
          You need to bookmark this thread by Pipecrew
          http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...hreadid=213630
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            • stev0
              Confirmed User
              • Aug 2003
              • 6801
              #4
              I use powerDVD ... basically every time i hit "C" it saves a screen cap to a file. Works great, but only about 1/5 turn remotely clear unfortunately.

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                • stev0
                  Confirmed User
                  • Aug 2003
                  • 6801
                  #5
                  Originally posted by Vox
                  You need to bookmark this thread by Pipecrew
                  http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...hreadid=213630
                  Handy thread, thanks! But unfortunately it doesnt say anything about capturing directly off DVD's... anyone know if any of that software can open a .vob file like an avi file?

                  From reading that it seems that all you can really do is find a clear frame and capture it... are there a bunch of blurry and clear frames on every DVD?

                  I thought it might have something to do with hardware...

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                    • jollyperv
                      Confirmed User
                      • Nov 2001
                      • 3927
                      #6
                      De-interlace or field bob filters.

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                        • stev0
                          Confirmed User
                          • Aug 2003
                          • 6801
                          #7
                          Originally posted by jollyperv
                          De-interlace or field bob filters.
                          Hmmm, in the player config i can force bob, or force weave... are those what you're talking about?

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                            • stev0
                              Confirmed User
                              • Aug 2003
                              • 6801
                              #8
                              Think it would work better if i hooked up a DVD player to my TV Tuner card and took captures that way?

                              The "force weave" seems to make the images clearer, but there is horizontal lines all over them..

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                                • zzgundamnzz
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Apr 2002
                                  • 6102
                                  #9
                                  What you can do is move frame by frame. Avoid the frames with heavy motions... this seems to help me out with Power DVD.


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                                    • Greg B
                                      So Fucking Banned
                                      • Jul 2001
                                      • 7014
                                      #10
                                      By accident I found this out.

                                      There's a version of 'Real Player' that you use to watch DVDs with. There's also a free program called 'MWSnap'. You launch MW Snap, then launch your DVD with Real Player and then snap using MWSnap.

                                      I did that on my old computer by accident and the pic was razor sharp.

                                      I don't know if Real Player still does it but I believe it does. That's the full version of Real Player if I recall.

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                                        • stev0
                                          Confirmed User
                                          • Aug 2003
                                          • 6801
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by zzgundamnzz
                                          What you can do is move frame by frame. Avoid the frames with heavy motions... this seems to help me out with Power DVD.
                                          hmmm, how do you move frame by frame in power DVD? is there an easy hotkey to use? Or just watch the movie at 1/8x ?

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                                            • mattyboy
                                              Confirmed User
                                              • Mar 2003
                                              • 1070
                                              #12
                                              I had this problem to. I've tried capturing from playing the DVD from a standalone player going thru a capture box with comes with Pinnacle 8/9, using power DVD and the good old "PrtScn" button and pasting into Photoshop. All work to a degree but was a bit hit and miss - some coming out ok and some unusable.
                                              Ive come accross this bit of software called DVDGo Lite and while not being perfect, it seems to be the best and quickest method i've tried. (Theres a free demo you can download which leaves an image stamp). Pausing the DVD 1st making sure the shot is clear is the best way i've found.

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                                                • Pornwolf
                                                  Drunk and Unruly
                                                  • Jan 2002
                                                  • 22712
                                                  #13
                                                  WinDVD
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                                                    • jollyperv
                                                      Confirmed User
                                                      • Nov 2001
                                                      • 3927
                                                      #14
                                                      Originally posted by stev0
                                                      Think it would work better if i hooked up a DVD player to my TV Tuner card and took captures that way?

                                                      The "force weave" seems to make the images clearer, but there is horizontal lines all over them..
                                                      Don't bother...you're going from pure digital source to an analog input, you're gonna lose too much quality for them to be usable. That's assuming your capture card uses RCA's.

                                                      The lines you are seeing are 2 different fields, the odd field and the even field. These fields are "interlaced" so you need to "deinterlace" them to blend the 2 fields together.

                                                      If you want quality caps, there's no magic solution...you really should go in and pull them out frame by frame, and as mentioned above, the best caps are gonna be the ones that have little to no motion in them.
                                                      Last edited by jollyperv; 05-06-2004, 11:58 PM.

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                                                        • Pornwolf
                                                          Drunk and Unruly
                                                          • Jan 2002
                                                          • 22712
                                                          #15
                                                          InterVideo WinDVD

                                                          All your questions will be answered by finding this product.
                                                          I've trusted my sites to them for over a decade...

                                                          Webair, bitches.

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                                                            • stev0
                                                              Confirmed User
                                                              • Aug 2003
                                                              • 6801
                                                              #16
                                                              Originally posted by Pornwolf
                                                              InterVideo WinDVD

                                                              All your questions will be answered by finding this product.
                                                              I already have it... it can't capture to a file can it?

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                                                                • stev0
                                                                  Confirmed User
                                                                  • Aug 2003
                                                                  • 6801
                                                                  #17
                                                                  ah, got it.... needed the platinum version. Thanks for the help everyone.

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                                                                    • biskoppen
                                                                      Confirmed User
                                                                      • Mar 2003
                                                                      • 5809
                                                                      #18
                                                                      Originally posted by stev0
                                                                      hmmm, how do you move frame by frame in power DVD? is there an easy hotkey to use? Or just watch the movie at 1/8x ?
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                                                                        • Martin
                                                                          "Assassins"
                                                                          • Dec 2001
                                                                          • 17274
                                                                          #19
                                                                          Opps nevermind.
                                                                          Last edited by Martin; 05-07-2004, 09:51 AM.

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