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.

I think you need to have a screen recorder app to pull clear images off DVD's.

You need to bookmark this thread by Pipecrew
http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...hreadid=213630

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.

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...

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?

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..

What you can do is move frame by frame. Avoid the frames with heavy motions... this seems to help me out with Power DVD.

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.

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 ?

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. :2 cents:

WinDVD

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.

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?

ah, got it.... needed the platinum version. Thanks for the help everyone.

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Opps nevermind.