Frame Capture In DVD Player?

Is there any way to do frame captures in Apple's DVD Player app? I know you can bring in Preview to Grab the Window, but is there a quick way to do it within the DVD player?

No plug-ins or shareware Apps to do this? I would imagine that a lot of people use this feature. PowerDVD for the PC comes with it built-in.

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How do I take a Screen Capture using DVD Player?

I shot a video of MY own family using MY own video camera, then made a movie using MY own Mac and burned it to MY own DVD-R disk. However, when I try to capture a frame of MY own movie using MY own Mac's DVD Player, it will not let me because the MPAA dictates to Apple.
How can I get a screen capture from MY DVD, please?
Thank you!

In Terminal run:
screencapture -ics
usage: screencapture [-icmwsWx] [files]
-i capture screen interactively, by selection or window
control key - causes screen shot to go to clipboard
space key - toggle between mouse selection and
window selection modes
escape key - cancels interactive screen shot
-c force screen capture to go to the clipboard
-m only capture the main monitor, undefined if -i is set
-w only allow window selection mode
-s only allow mouse selection mode
-W start interaction in window selection mode
-x do not play sounds
-S in window capture mode, capture the screen not the window
-C capture the cursor as well as the screen. only in non-interactive modes
-t<format> image format to create, default is png
files where to save the screen capture, 1 file per screen

Screen Captures from DVD Player?

I'm using the Apple DVD v3.2, and am wondering if it's possible to catch screen captures (to use for my desk top)....from movies.
I just read the Quicktime question for screen captures, but that didn't work for the DVD player.
Thanks,
Sarah

Try Capture Me http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11623
It works for me
imac Mac OS 9.2.x

Frame by Frame backwards with DVD player?

It seems like DVD player is missing a simple yet key function to step backwards frame by frame. I work in the film biz and frame accuracy is essential. PC and home based players allow you to step backwards frame by frame, how can i do it on my Mac?

My guess is going to be that it has something to do with the GOP structure of DVD video files. You know, of course, that MPEG2 files on DVDs only have specific key frames in the file and then the rest are just the changes in color etc.
My guess is that hardware, like a DVD player, may cache more information at one time and therefore have an re-assembled frame stored from playing forward.
But, that doesn't explain why DVD Player wouldn't do the same, seeing as it could concievably have and unlimited amount of memory to store the re-assembled frames from the DVD file.
I sure would be handy for when I have people checking my work. They could find a specific frame where an error is or starts.

No screen capture when DVD Player is running?!

I have a DVD of my band playing a show that I want to take quick snaps from so I could post it on MySpace, but some genius at Apple decided you shouldn't be allowed to take screenshots with DVD Player is on.
Do they do this with any other program?
I could type out a copyrighted article or book in Word. Download a copyrighted movie as a .mov file off P2P. Take a screenshot and post it as a PDF or JPG.
Better yet, why don't they block YouTube.com so nobody can view stolen, copyrighted material.
It's my DVD, I made it. It is not copyrighted in any way. Yet for some reason they have taken the liberty to ensure I won't be able to take a snapshot of it, because there might be a chance someone would want to take a JPG of a copywrited movie.
I guess I could always download Handbrake and make it a .mov file, THEN take the screen shot. Or maybe Apple will read this and make it so I can't download that program.

I have a DVD of my band playing a show that I want to
take quick snaps from so I could post it on MySpace,
but some genius at Apple decided you shouldn't be
allowed to take screenshots with DVD Player is on.
Apple didn't decide to do this. To get the decrypting code for their DVD Player they had to sign a license with the DVD consortium. The movie industry sets the license terms and they don't want ANYTHING copied.
Do they do this with any other program?
No, but there are similar issues. For example, Preview will disable the "Save as PDF" print option for some PDF files (such as filled-in PDF forms), the same as Adobe's Acrobat reader does. They might have a PDF license from Adobe that requires this.
It's my DVD, I made it. It is not copyrighted in any
way. Yet for some reason they have taken the liberty
to ensure I won't be able to take a snapshot of it,
because there might be a chance someone would want to
take a JPG of a copywrited movie.
The DVD Player application has no way of telling that you are the copyright holder. They may just assume that the maker of a DVD would have all the source material and could get all the screen-shots needed from that.
There is VLC, but it is probably illegal in the USA. There are other screen-shot programs that don't have restrictions against DVDs. Look on VersionTracker or MacUpdate.

DVD frame capture?

I'm looking for DVD player software that has a "frame capture" feature that will run either on Leopard or on my "virtual machine" running Windows XP. On my old PC I ran WinDVD which had a neat "frame capture" feature to save images (necessary for my work). When I attempted to install my old copy of WinDVD 6 I got an error message that said it won't run on a virtual machine. Any suggestions? HELP!

Unless they've changed things, I believe that VLC (http://www.videolan.org/) will do frame captures.

I am trying to burn DVDs from iPhoto slideshows. My pictures number in the hundreds and we know that iPhoto captures 99 and then "starts over". This plays fine from the Mac Book but glitches arise on the DVD when playing it on a DVD player. Any suggsts

I am trying to burn DVDs from iPhoto slideshows. My pictures number in the hundreds and we know that iPhoto captures 99 and then "starts over". This plays fine from the Mac Book but glitches arise on the DVD when playing it on a DVD player. Any suggestions on how to overcome the 99 "Chapter limitation" that IPhoto has? Has anyone heard or tried an app called Vilisoft? I read good things but I am not sure if it will do what I want.
Jim

Then use multipel 99 picture slideshows.
You can have up to 8 or 9 slideshows per menu. If you add a sub menu reduce that by 1 and add 8 more to the sub menu. The top menu can have links to up to 8 or so submenus (depends on the theme) and each submenu can have up to 8 or so slideshows.
However, converting a very large slideshow to a QT movie as Terence suggested does not envoke the 99 slide limit in iDVD. It just becomes a single video/movie file. So you should not have a problem with exporting at the large size, 720 x 540,
and dragging the resulting file into the iDVD menu being sure to avoid any drop zones.
OT

Connect MacBook to DVD Player to Capture Vide Files?

Can I connect my MacBook to a DVD player to capture video files? The camera I am borrowing does not connect to computers and only spits out Mini DVDs. I tried to get the files off my work PC and they are in a .VOB format. Is there any other way I can get these files onto my Mac ASAP?

Jacob and Jess wrote:
Can I connect my MacBook to a DVD player to capture video files?
No.
a computer needs digital 'files' or streams, a DVDplayer can not offer (few do...)
your problem is the SIZE of the disks: never ever put miniDVDs into slot-in drives! get finally damaged (the drive, not the disk). only 'workaround' is usage of an external, tray dvd drive..
converting a DVD into an editable format is a frequently question with dozends of options,... Search?
is that camcorder on Apples list of iMovie supported devices?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3290?viewlocale=en_US
then, you can use iM as importer..

When playing a home video DVD using DVD Player I tried to use the "Controls, Use current frame as jacket picture" facility to create a printable image but with no success. Can anybody point me in the right direction?

When playing a home video DVD (created on my Panasonic DVD/Hard Disc recorder) using the Mac DVD Player, I tried to use the "Controls, Use current frame as jacket picture" facility to create a printable image but with no success. I assume that any file created by this action would be stored somewhere in a common format but cannot find any such file. Can anybody point me in the right direction?

Hi Sinious,
Interesting to know about 10.8 and Flash. I'll hold off upgrading until they work together. Currently using 10.6.8 at home and same on the Universtity's computers.
Haven't verified on Windows but shall do later in the week if I can get access to a Windows machine.
Both the Flash player and the Projector come up not full screen, and if I leave it that way then things work OK as long as I don't make the video full screen (using the full screen button on the skin).
However if I make the swf or projector full-screen (by using CMD-F or the menu option) then when I click on the menu item to take me to the page with the video on it, instead of a page with a smallish video and back button I get a black screen with no obvious controls. If I then press Escape I get my normal screen back and I am in the page that should have the video but there is not video and the back button does not work. So something wierd is going on here.
If I make a file without any videos with a similar navigation structure everyting works ok except that when I go full screen I lose the finger cursor when I roll over my buttons (which is also wierd).

Capturing dvd using DSR-11 and a DVD player

Hi.. It is probably pretty simple but I can't seem to work it. HELP ME PLEASE!
I am trying to capture a non-copyrighted dvd on FCP 5.1 (Powermac G5). I have the video output (both RCA and S-video) from the dvd player connected into the input on the Sony DSR-11. I have the input selector on the deck set to S-Video. When i play the dvd, it shows up on the NTSC monitor... but nothing shows up on the log and capture window preview. If click on capture now, it shows a black screen which says "trying to locate timecode" on the bottom.
I do not have a tape in the deck. I tried it with the S-video and Video seperately. No luck.
Thank you in advance. Hope I help some help from the wise.

Hi:
You can use * MPEG Streamclip * to extract and re-encode the DVD footage. I don't think you'll get better quality capturing it through your deck.
My 2 cents !
Hope that helps !
Alberto

Frame-By-Frame / DVD Player application is missing?

Hey everybody!
So I finally made the witch and got myself a nice new macbook pro about a month ago! Everything is going well with so far, but I may have just run across a bit of a small problem.
I'm an animator, and I like to be able to study animations frame by frame. I can't really seem to do this in Front Row. Or if I can, I can only go forward frame by frame. I need to go back and forth, one frame at a time. Am I missing a shortcut in Front Row for this?
Furthermore, I can't watch DVDs in front row in any other mode than full screen... I'd rather have it in a small window. This also doesn't seem to be an option with FR.
I would have thought that the program "DVD Player" would help me out, but I can't seem to find it on my computer! So I searched through the site here, and I found an installer - Great! Except that when I run it, I get an error message saying "You cannot install DVD Player on this volume. A newer version of this software already exists on this volume".... But... But... WHERE IS IT??? I've searched my computer for it, but it doesn't show up anywhere. Yet the installer thinks that there's a new version here somewhere.
Anybody have any god ideas as to what's up, or what I can do to watch DVDs in a window (not full screen), frame by frame, back and forth?
Thanks!
-Pete

So it seems I fixed most of my problem(s)!
I found a way to extract DVD Player from my install disks (Pacifist). So at least I have that working now. But I still can't frame step backwards... Annoying, but that just seems to be the way, I suppose.
If anybody has any suggestions about working around that problem, that would be greatly appreciated - Otherwise, the full screen and DVD Player problems are resolved.
Thanks!
-Pete
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DVD Player screenshot capture?

Hello -
Can anyone please tell me how to capture a screen image on the DVD Player.
Many thanks...

When you are on the Image you want
press PAUSE on the DVD player.
Go up to File and Click on Get Disk Info.
There you will see a little blank screen.
Press Current Image and it will appear in this box.
Now -- resume play
StOP (not pause) the DVDand that image will appear.
You can than either take a screen shot of it with Shift Command 3 or Cut it out with Shift Command 4.
a little cumbersome but it does work
GOD Bless and Good luck.

Capturing from an Internal DVD player

Hi,
I'm using a MacBook Pro & FCE 3.5. Is it possible to capture using my laptop's internal DVD player or can I only capture using an external DVD player hooked up with firewire?
Thanks,
Lisa

You can't capture from any DVD player without converting the material. It's in completely the wrong format. You can use MPEG Streamclip to convert the material to QuickTime with the DV codec.

Better capturing dvd through dvd player or dv tape transfer?

I've got a dvd to import in to final cut pro.
i've tried converting the dvd in to a quicktime file through the shareware MPEG-Streaming program but im getting dropped frames and even with them repared the loss in quality is too great.
Would i be better off rigging my dvd player up to fcp through my camera and importing it that way or would i get a higher quality result by having the dvd transferred on to mini dv and importing that directly through my camera?
Sorry, i would spend a day or two tinkering but i've already lost a morning faffing around on this as it is. does anyone have any ideas?
thanks very much. sorry if im asking stupid questions.

thanks. it's really just a quality issue. the files are pretty short so timecode isn't such an issue and to be honest if disaster hits im dead in the water even with a backup plan. this is the third time i've had my brief changed and i've only got a weekend left to do the job in.
grrrr.
thanks for being so helpful and for responding so quickly!

Capturing on my G4 using my Macbook DVD player

Hi,
I'm trying to capture some footage into a FCP project using my Macbook pro DVD player. Is this possible? I tried connecting the Macbook through a fire wire and the log and capture is not recognizing it. Any suggestions, or should I use a normal DVD player and capture through my coverter?
Thanx,
John

Jim,
Thanx for the quick response. I do have permission. It's for an actor's demo reel. Would you mind elaborating a little bit on the free mpeg streamclip. This is brand new information to me.
Thanx again,
John

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