Screen grab from DVD

does anyone know of a shareware or freeware utility that will allow me to take pictures of the DVD screen when using DVD Player 4.6.5? If I use shift-apple-3, I get an error stating screen grabs are not allowed DVD player.

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hi - i tried using grab to get an image from a dvd and it said it was unavailable while the dvd was open - i appreciate why this might be but it does seem a little mean to see the least!
any ideas how i can get a screen grab from a dvd i am watching
thanks all
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Play your DVD with VLC and you will be able to take a screen shot.

Screen shots from DVDs

How can I take a screen shot from commercial DVDs? "Grab" doesn't work. I think something can be done in "terminal", but I don't know what. Can anyone tell me?
Thanks,
kevbet

Do you mean you're trying to get a screen shot from a movie playing from a DVD? If so, download the VLC Media Player. It will allow screen grabs during playback.

Doing grabs from dvd player

I've only just started learning how to use the Grab function.
Is it possible to do a grab from a movie I am playing on the dvd player?
A salesman at the local Apple store told me it's doable,
but when I tried just now, a window popped up
and said that 'Screen grabs are unavailable during DVD playback,'
and to 'Quit DVD player first.'

Hi Eustaquio Villafranca,
As far as I know it is not possible and you will need to use a third party app to accomplish it. Have a look at this topic with its accompaning link for a list of applications that are compatible with your OS.
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Taking automatic screen grabs from video?

I have a video file (VOB) and I'd like to automatically take, say, a random 100 screen grabs/stills/frames.
Any tools to do this? I don't mind converting the video from VOB to something else first if need be.
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Probably others out there, though there are more for Windows than OS X.

Screen shots from dvd

This is my first time posting with this and I am a relatively new user to macs to I am not too sure what I am doing.
I put a DVD into the side of the computer and clicked the DVD player that popped up. It is not iDVD but I could not find a discussion board for a regular DVD player. When I play the DVD it wokrs fine. I have it paused and I am trying to get a screen shot of the paused DVD screen.
With the screen in full screen I hhit appleshift3. I am doing this trying to get a full screen shot. However, I get the error message that "screen grabs are unavailable during DVD playback. Please quit dvd player first."
Does anyone know what I should do to get a screen shot of the dvd? Any help would really be appreciated!

Welcome to discussions!
Your best bet is to ask this question in the iMac forum (Click on this link and then scroll down to where is says something about using DVDs and CDs with your Mac)
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=132
:)Sue
PS You can't take a screen shot when the DVD player is on because of copyright rules...however, you can purchase third party software that probably will.

Screen Capture from DVD?

This is probably the wrong place to post, but I need help in a hurry. Is there a way to do a video capture from a DVD movie that is paused? I need to get a photo and the only place I have it is in a DVD movie.
Thanks,

.. if you're entitled to do screen captures from that DVD, simply use a different DVDplayer app:
VLC http://www.videolan.org/
open the DVD with VLC, and the usual Apple tools as mentioned above are available ..

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.
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Sarah

Try Capture Me http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11623
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Boots to a blank blue screen unless from DVD

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slee:
Have you tried:
Repair Disk
Insert Installer disk and Restart, holding down the "C" key until grey Apple appears.
Go to Installer menu (Panther and earlier) or Utilities menu (Tiger) and launch Disk Utility.
Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in the left panel.
Select First Aid in the Main panel.
(Check S.M.A.R.T Status of HDD at the bottom of right panel, and report if it says anything but Verified)
Click Repair Disk on the bottom right.
If DU reports disk does not need repairs quit DU and restart.
If DU reports errors Repair again and again until DU reports disk is repaired.
If DU reports errors it cannot repair you will need to use a utility like Tech Tool Pro or Disk Warrior
Please post back with update or further questions/comments.
Good luck.
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Using i-movie. I want to get a screen grab from one of the clips

I thought there was a way in i-movie to get a screen capture (freeze frame / picture) from a video clip. Then the video keeps playing. say a shot of a kid catching a ball. It freezes when he catches it.. then the video continues .. and u can add the camera sound effect so it looks like a real picture.. any help is appreciated.

In the Project, right-click (or Control-click) on the frame and select "Add Freeze Frame" from the pop-up menu. This places a still directly after the frame you've selected. You can change the duration of the still in the Inspector.
In the Events you can also select "Add Still Frame to Project" using the same method. This places a still at the end of your Project which can be moved to any location within the Project.
John

I can't take screen shots of dvds

i've tried with both 'preview' and 'grab' applications, as well as with every keyboard shortcut to take screen captures from dvds that i'm watching, and every time the capture is blank. does anyone know whats up with this? any help is appreciated. thanks.

There are programs out there that will do what you want. Realize that commercial DVD's are copy protected and Apple programs respect that.

How to highlight text in a screen grab?

I did a screen grab from imdb (Internet Movie DataBase) off the Internet. It's currently in .png format.
I want to highlight part of the text in the text in this picture as if I were using a yellow highlighter marker. I've tried everything I can think of but so far no dice.
It seems that the thing to do is to choose Tools > Mark Up, but Mark Up is grayed out.
I know this is possible because a guy I work with does it all the time. But it's too late to call him, and he's fairly irrascible anyway. And I know I did it once a while ago.
Can someone help? Thanks.

I'd never used Grab before, so just did so. It's an awfully simple app, it seems - offers some capture controls the keyboard commands don't (such as timed and full window), but doesn't seem to be able to do anything other than capture an image. Its Preferences are bare-bones.
I had to open my test image in Preview to make any annotations. That was easy - save the image in Grab to the desktop and name it, then a double-click of the file opened it in Preview.
So, we're back to Preview.
Don't understand why the annotation tools aren't available to you in Preview.
Edit - -
Just rebooted into Snow Leopard to do some testing. No matter what I tried, new screenshot using keyboard or Grab, fiddling with settings, I could not get Preview to not allow selecting the Rectangle tool.
Only other thing I can think of - do a Get Info on the screenshot file, check the permsissions at the bottom of the Get Info window.

Automated Screen Grabs in Premiere and Media Encoder

I need to make screen grabs from a premiere pro movie that I am editing. I was able to set up a preset in media encoder that will give me the format of images that I need. What I can't figure out how to do is how to get media encoder to give me a certain amount of images per second. The only thing that I can get it to do is make an image for every frame of the movie. Final cut would let you program the auto scene grab function to (for instance) give you one image for every 2 seconds of the entire movie. Any thoughts????

I'm having similar problems. I can't export anything now...either from Premiere or from Media Encoder. My sequence is ProRes HQ, I am exporting using sequence settings.
It gets about 75% of the way through and bails with this error message:
Export Error
Error compiling movie.
Unknown error.
That's really helpful. Addtionally, when I tried to export out of Media Encoder, I was greeted by an extremely loud bleating goat noise when it failed. Nice. I had a room full of clients. Thanks Adobe.
I'm seriously doubting the claim of "Pro" at this point.
This was not beta tested with a ****.

Screen Grabs - no iPhoto Preview

Hi There!
I have just noticed a bug between the iPhone and iPhoto. Photos taken with the camera display a preview. Screen Grabs from the iPhone (holding the home key and clicking the sleep/wake button) have no preview in the import window however import fine?
Anyone else getting this?

I was just wondering about this as screen grabs used to show up in iPhoto. I thought maybe it was something from the new raw capture update that was installed a few days ago.

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I've been trying to make a poster for a short i did and i was just wondering if I I were to take a screen grab from my short and make it the picture for the poster would there be any way to up the resolution so its really clear...the movie was shot on a DVX100 and I have CS2 ...im new so gimme a break if this is a crazy easy question lol...anyhelp is always greatly appreciated, thanks !

Your still image from FCP, regardless of any setting or format you select, will never be any better than what your video camera produced. Your video is probably only about 500 x 800 pixels, more or less, depending on format, maybe as large as 1080 horizontal pixels if HD.
Still cameras create 3000 pixel images which are huge by comparison to video.
Without using an up-rez filter for a photo editing app like Photoshop or a specific applicaiton, as Scotland suggests, you can only get pigger, blockier pixels. You cannot create any more of them.
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