About the description of large clips

[vl500]

Hi,
A sugestion on the presentation of large clips, now to be found in "The Splits": besides length, action (f/f, m/f etc.), many people would appreciate one or several vidcaps, even small ones. This would be particularly useful for us illfated 56k modem users, for which 10 - 20 or more MB is a great deal of bytes...
(The caps need not be posted by the thread starter - any good man with a broad band will do 🙂

Thanks any way.

 

[His Divine Shadow]

The one problem with this is that the normal way of getting screen caps, Alt-PrintScrn and the like, doesn't work with several media players. For instance, when I try to do it on Windows Media player, it does not copy the current picture of the video. There is just a black space where it is playing. Now, there are programs out there that can circumvent this, but for some, they are simply too much trouble. While I too would like to see caps of clips that are large in size, I don't expect people to go to the trouble of finding, getting to work, and learning how to use software, especially if they have to pay for that software, just to grab caps.

Of course, if someone has a simple way around the capping problem, then there would be no reason not to post caps.

 

[vl500]

Well, concerning the problem at hand (the capturing of stills from a moving video that is), a solution could be nearing us : )
This thing involves Windows Movie Maker VERSION 2 + which should come with Service Pack 2 for Win XP, or could be downloaded separately from Bill's site. If you have it, the rest is easy.

First import the file with File -> Import (or Ctrl-I), then, in their own words:

To take a picture from video in the monitor

In the Contents pane (that's the column in the middle) or on the storyboard/timeline, select the video clip you want to take a picture from.

Do one of the following:
On the monitor, move the playback indicator on the seek bar to the frame of the video that you want to capture as a picture.
(...)
On the Tools menu, click Take Picture from Preview.
-or-
On the monitor, click the Take Picture button.

In the File name box, enter a name for the picture file, and then click Save.

... and there you have it, folks !

This method doesn't unfortunately work for files encoded with 'proprietary' codecs, such as Real Media (.rm, .ram etc) as Movie Maker doesn't support them. However, if I think of something I'll let you know.

So that's it then.

 

[cosquillero1]

About of screen caps of videos, nobody can be enforced into to do this, this's a choice of poster, myself have posted some screen caps of my posts, but sometimes this feature don't work in my pc (i don't know why, only happens sometimes). Many people don't post clip's features (f/f, m/f, body target, duration, file format), but again nobody can be enforced into to do that. Would be great than each person in this forum do all descriptions as possible in each post, but in practice facts, that won't happens.