How to make Screen cap of a movie!

First of you will need 2 things:

1. Image Grabber II - A brilliant program!

You can actually get it from here:2. An Image host (like PhotoEm.com - Free Photo Storage or http://www.agigforimages.com/login.php)

1. Creating screen shots

To get started open up your movie in image grabber (supports wmv as well) and the movie will start playing. Click the red stop button and the movie is open and ready to go.

Click this button the following dialog box will appear



Enter the number of screens shots you would like to take of the scene. A good number for a scene is probably about 10-15 and you can have a play around with this and the number of columns explained in the settings below to see what you like.

When you click OK it will go through the movie taking the screen shots and add them to the time line across the bottom.

You can add individual selected screen shots by using the scrollbar to move to the picture you want and clicking this button to add the current image at the end of the time line.

Once you have all the pics you want you can arrange the screen shots in the time line.


* Right click a screen shot to delete it, delete all or change the text label.

* Left click a screen shot to drag it to where you want in the time line.


image grabber settings

Once you have all the screens you want, on the File menu click Save File and you will see the following default settings dialog box ...



Layout: Good idea to make the dimensions of each screen (Tile) a fraction of the original to avoid distortion.

Style: Details of the drop shadow around your screens and the background color for your image.

Info: You can include the time each sample was taken in the vid.

JPEG: You can adjust the quality down to reduce the file size say for a full movie with many screens.

Details: You can include the basic movie statistics in the image.



Once you have your image you may want to resize it or modify it in some way, a nice free and easy to use image viewing/editing tool is irfanview
Now you have your screen shots, the next step is hosting your cool new image.

2. Hosting screen shots

The are a few free image hosting web sites around and most of them operate the same way. I personaly use PhotoEm.com - Free Photo Storage or aGigForImages.com - Free Image Hosting - 1 Gig Of Space For Your Images

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Thanks so much for caring to share your skills and knowledge with those less knowledgeable.

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