Screen Shots/ Captures

[chibi_goten]

Yo,

I have all of the episodes of Dragonball,Dragonball Z and GT.

I have recentley been playing them on my computer so I could take screen shots etc to make new avatars, but when I take a screen shot of the part I want to save as an image when you save it it ends up as a black image.

When I save the image when you press play on the DVD option I can open up paint or Paintshop Pro whatever I am useing to save the image and the DVD will resume playing making it impossible to save images.

Does anyone know a programme or some software which will be suitable to help or an alternative way to do it?

Also the reason why I mentioned that I own the series on DVD was because I am intrested in making a music video, can someone direct me to a link of what software to use etc, I know I got recomended to use windows movie maker on one of the earlier podcasts but does anyone have any alternatives or ones easier to use?

I have a few songs lined up ready to make,

Hopefully I will be able to upload it to a site so you guys will be able to check it out!

Could take a while though, going away for a while soon.

[Eclipse]

Also the reason why I mentioned that I own the series on DVD was because I am intrested in making a music video, can someone direct me to a link of what software to use etc, I know I got recomended to use windows movie maker on one of the earlier podcasts but does anyone have any alternatives or ones easier to use?

Windows Movie Maker is the easiest. You can't find anything else that's easier and can still make AMVs on a decent level.

When I save the image when you press play on the DVD option I can open up paint or Paintshop Pro whatever I am useing to save the image and the DVD will resume playing making it impossible to save images.

The method I use is that with Windows Media Player (Media Player 10 and Up) and...

Tools > Options > Performance

Look for Video Acceleration, there should be a bar near a mark 'Full'. Slide that bar to the halfway point. Then close Media Player, open it up again, get your DVD and try the screen capture again.

[chibi_goten]

Thank you, I will try that!

[SatoSky]

You can use a program like PowerDVD to take screen shots for you.
PowerDVD
There's a link to the free-trial.
Once you have that, follow these instructions.

Once downloaded and installed, pop a DVD into your DVD Drive and open it with PowerDVD. Look for the little 'camera' next to the volume indicator, right-click on that and select "Capture to file."
After that is done, you can just click on the 'camera' button again, and it will save that specific frame as a BitMap image. It will probably save to My Documents>Cyberlink, unless specified otherwise.
I hope that was in the least bit helpful.

[chibi_goten]

Cool I have Power DVD I will try all methods thanks!