OpenCommunityimcdb - Capture pictures

23/02/2008 @ 18:14:16: Ddey65: Capture pictures

VLC makes JPG directly if you want, just set it in the program.

Good to know. But how do I resize those enormous JPGs, I've already made that were once PNG's? Nothing in XnView is telling me what to do.

EDIT: Luckily I found "Microsoft Office Picture Manager."

23/02/2008 @ 21:14:59: CarChasesFanatic: Capture pictures

in VLC go to options, preferences, video, then you set jpg rather than png and you wont have to resize them, try it and tell me.

24/02/2008 @ 00:27:01: antp: Capture pictures

If you plan to resize/crop images, it is better to capture in png and convert only when/after resizing, else there is a quality loss.
This allows to remove black borders :tongue:

and eventually compress more if needed (i.e. 80% quality / 20% compression), though hat I think VLC's compression is acceptable, unlike MPC which makes way too big JPEGs.

19/03/2008 @ 21:03:02: Neon: Capture pictures

Why Media player Classic, wrong the ratio in the my captures? How do for correct the ratio (also in 4:3 video)?

19/03/2008 @ 22:33:26: antp: Capture pictures

Captures are saved in the same format as the original video, which is stored with a "wrong" ratio for DVDs (I do not know why, though).
You have to resize them using for example XnView.

20/03/2008 @ 00:16:21: IRT_BMT_IND: Capture pictures

Quote From: antp

Captures are saved in the same format as the original video, which is stored with a "wrong" ratio for DVDs (I do not know why, though).
You have to resize them using for example XnView.

DVD video is usually anamorphic. The picture is always stored in the raw MPEG data with a 4:3 aspect ratio at 720x480 pixels. The aspect ratio you see on the screen is set by a flag that will tell the player to resize the video.
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphic_widescreen

20/03/2008 @ 09:54:37: antp: Capture pictures

or 720x576, for non-widescreen videos.

27/03/2008 @ 17:53:28: Neon: Capture pictures

How can I resize the images done with MPC with XnView, which botton or function I must use?
Can someone say me the precise way for this operation... thanks :smile:

27/03/2008 @ 18:37:06: Wampa-One: Capture pictures

Neon, here is an explanation I gave someone else a while back. Hope it helps.

http://forum.imcdb.org/forum_topic-3278-done_Island_of_Terror_1966.html

Quote From: Wampa-One

For using XnView to resize and compress at the same time, all I do is open XnView, then File>Open to open the image. Next I select Image>Resize. The only thing I enter is either the maximum allowed width or maximum allowed height (whichever ends up being the dimension which is the limiting factor). For standard 4:3 aspect ratio, I type 500 for the height in pixels, and the width is automatically calculated. If the image is 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio, I enter 720 for the width in pixels, and the height is automatically calculated. Then I click OK, then File>Save or Save As, and name the file whatever I want to (usually I just overwrite the original file).

I admit I do not understand the inner workings of what happens, but it seems that the compression intertwined with the resizing. I guess that is what XnView calls “Resample”.

By default settings, I mean that I did not change any of the settings before I began using the program. I left “Keep aspect ratio” checked and I left “Resample: Lanczos” which is how it was when I downloaded it. http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/9461/capture20080227ca3.th.jpg

Sorry if I did not explain any of this clearly enough. Let me know if you have any other questions, and I’ll do my best to help.

27/03/2008 @ 21:18:37: antp: Capture pictures

Note that if the images do not have the proper aspect ratio, you have to uncheck "keep aspect ratio" and compute which height goes well with the width that you entered.

If you have more than one image, you can use Tools -> Batch Processing.

Do not forget to specify 80% quality in the options when selecting jpeg as output format.

28/03/2008 @ 06:47:01: badlymad: Capture pictures

If you have embedded bars, you can use the 'resize canvas' function to eliminate them, though you also have to resize them again to get a correct aspect ratio. You can also do multiple actions at once in xnview which is useful for large batch conversions.

28/03/2008 @ 11:21:01: antp: Capture pictures

It is usually easier to resize before removing borders if you are not sure on which ratio to use: DVDs with borders use 1.33 or 1.77 (and if you pick the wrong one you'll see it directly), but the cropped movie image itself can be 1.33, 1.66, 1.85, 2.35 or some less common others.

15/04/2008 @ 00:03:01: Neon: Capture pictures

I would buy PowerDvd, is it a good program? is simple to make the captures in it?

15/04/2008 @ 00:42:18: antp: Capture pictures

It is a good program (*), but I am not sure that it is especially worth buying it. What program do you currently have?
As free software there is Media Player Classic which works fine (there is also VLC, though that it is a little less easy as it does not allow frame-by-frame playing and the pause is not immediate)

(*) except that on my previous PC it was unable to use the digital output, that's why I started to use MSIDVD and then WinDVD (which are both the same, I got these bundled with hardware that I bought)

15/04/2008 @ 00:57:49: Neon: Capture pictures

Now I have MPC and also VLC (for the fast scenes I use MPC because it has the frame-by-frame function; but usually I use more VLC), anyway, the quality of my images is not very good :/, and I hope that with power dvd the quality becomes better...

15/04/2008 @ 02:37:55: CarChasesFanatic: Capture pictures

Neon, i would like to get MPC, as i always wanted a programme with the frame by frame option, special for when i take pictures of crashes, could you please tell me where did you get it? and if you get it from internet could you link me to the site you got it from?

Thanks in advance :wink:

15/04/2008 @ 10:28:16: antp: Capture pictures

Official site only had an old version, but you can find the latest one here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=205650
And here is the direct link to yesterday's version:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/guliverkli2/mplayerc_20080414.zip?modtime=12082- 01309&big_mirror=0