Getting a still picture DVD grab

[LongDong]

Hey peoples I need some help real quick, I am putting together a DVD for some family friends who lost their kid to cancer last year. I am putting tapes I have onto DVD for them and want to do a screen grab of a clip (make it into a still I can save onto my PC) of their son who passd on, so that I can use that to make a label and cover for the DVD. Anyone have any idea how I might do that?

 

[black_dust]

Hmmm we talking about dvd player on the tv or thats all on your pc...?

If on your pc

In cyberlink power dvd if you have that, there is a small camera icon on the controls, clicks that and it will save as a Jpg file.

Another way on pc is just doing a print screen 2 buttons left of F12, open paint and clicking edit . paste. crop the image and save.

 

[SpideyLad]

Hmmm we talking about dvd player on the tv or thats all on your pc...?

If on your pc

In cyberlink power dvd if you have that, there is a small camera icon on the controls, clicks that and it will save as a Jpg file.

Another way on pc is just doing a print screen 2 buttons left of F12, open paint and clicking edit . paste. crop the image and save.

It's actually the button to the right of F12, with Prt Scrn/Sys Rq on it.

 

[Master Chief]

Pressing print screen and copy/pasting the image will show the player, but not the image in the player.

Anyway, VLC Media Player is another player that can save a screen capture as a .jpg or .png from anything it's playing, whether it be a DVD or a movie file. And it's free so. Cool.

 

[black_dust]

It's actually the button to the right of F12, with Prt Scrn/Sys Rq on it.

Oh yeah, i wrote L and R on the wrong hands this morning, opps! silly me!

 

[LongDong]

I found a copy of Pinnacle for pretty cheap, going to mess around with it tomorrow after football.

Thanks for the help guys, I will try these things as well.