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wordplay ([personal profile] wordplay) wrote2008-07-18 07:25 am

Screencapping?

I need to sort out how to make screencaps sometime pretty soon, because I'm supposed to be doing a post about Wilby Wonderful for [livejournal.com profile] the_ckr_files1 and apparently it's been moved up a week (um, o rly?) and I should probably, yeah, finally learn how to do that so I don't have to steal those belonging to other people. Is there good screengrab shareware that works well with VLC or something?



1Which is, like, the greatest thing and hey, Hewlettistas, is totally something that somebody could do on a smaller scale for dHew, discuss. I mean, it would give people a REASON to watch Boa v. Python, f'rex.

[identity profile] unamaga.livejournal.com 2008-07-18 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
If you want to screencap in VLC, there's a way to set it for automatic without any extra -wares. Tutorial!

I could totally get behind that. So to speak. :o

[identity profile] slidellra.livejournal.com 2008-07-18 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
YAY Wilby Wonderful and [livejournal.com profile] the_ckr_files! And you!

I find autocapping to be kind of overwhelming with the sheer number of caps produced, and unless you're taking an insane number of caps you can miss a specific moment of greatness, so I often prefer to do it manually in VLC (under the "video" menu or by right clicking on the screen and choosing "snapshot"). But it's totally okay to use existing caps with credit, should you wanna.