Some of you probably already know this, but there is an easy way to capture stills from your video using WinDVD.
1. Load your video into WinDVD and play it.
2. "WinDVD now allows users to capture a static image during movie playback. Press the "P" key at any time to capture a BMP file of a moving or static image. Capture does not work on zoomed regions and on some hardware motion compensation graphics chips. If you are having a problem, try disabling hardware motion compensation and capturing again.
Captured bitmaps are stored in the Capture subdirectory of the WinDVD directory on your hard drive. Captured files are numbered sequentially: cap001.bmp, cap002.bmp, and so on."
3. It can be a bit of a hunt to find this folder every time, so once you do (My Computer >(usually)HDD C: >Program Files >InterVideo >WinDVD >Capture), right-click on the Capture folder and choose Create Shortcut. You'll then have a desktop shortcut to all the stills you capture using this method.
The quality of the stills is quite good, but the format is .BMP, so if you want .JPG or something else, you can to convert them in picture editing software.
Hope this helps!
1. Load your video into WinDVD and play it.
2. "WinDVD now allows users to capture a static image during movie playback. Press the "P" key at any time to capture a BMP file of a moving or static image. Capture does not work on zoomed regions and on some hardware motion compensation graphics chips. If you are having a problem, try disabling hardware motion compensation and capturing again.
Captured bitmaps are stored in the Capture subdirectory of the WinDVD directory on your hard drive. Captured files are numbered sequentially: cap001.bmp, cap002.bmp, and so on."
3. It can be a bit of a hunt to find this folder every time, so once you do (My Computer >(usually)HDD C: >Program Files >InterVideo >WinDVD >Capture), right-click on the Capture folder and choose Create Shortcut. You'll then have a desktop shortcut to all the stills you capture using this method.
The quality of the stills is quite good, but the format is .BMP, so if you want .JPG or something else, you can to convert them in picture editing software.
Hope this helps!