Hi Amy
I'm not sure if I can help or not but didn't want you to feel ignored.

I know my son has the Troy DVD and my computer has a dvd player but whether I can take still shots of it I just don't know.

I'll look into it and get back to you.
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Sue :)

Me again
I'm really sorry Amy but I couldn't do it :(
Can't take a still picture from the movie. But I hope someone will be able to come to your rescue.
Sue

Thanks for trying Sue. I too have that setup but you need to have the special capture device in order to do it. There are lots of captures of the movie on the internet, but not the shots I need :(

Can you pause it and do a print screen and paste it into your favorite image editing program?

Rebecca

Hi Rebecca
Unfortunately not. That was what I was thought too but the image actually moves even as a captured shot - very very strange to see.

HUGS
Sue :)

So strange. I put in a DVD and played it in Window Media Player. I was able to pause and do a pring screen and bring it into photoshop. But, when I would go to save all it would save was a blank black screen. This has got me curious now.

LOL Be warned Rebecca it's addictive. I was trying with Paintshop and even though I kept failing I had to keep trying and tryng and trying - LOL it got to be a bit addictive :)
Have fun and if you figure it out please share the knowledge.
Sue :)

I think I have it. Click on thumbnail to see the full pic (it's a big .bmp file) of the menu from the movie 'A Series of Unfortunate Events'. I found a free download off tucows.com that captures images called Any Capture. http://www.tucows.com/preview/237902 Man I love a challenge!

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WOW. Great work Rebecca.
Amy where are you? Grab that download and go snag some dresses. :)

Thank You Rebecca
Sue :)

Forgot to say how much I enjoyed that movie Rebecca.
Sue :)

Wow, I rock!

I just got the movie tonight and have not watched it yet. My son has read all the books.

OK, in Any Capture this is the steps I took:

1. Find the scene in the movie and pause it.
2. Open Any Capture.
3. On the menu, click Capture>Enable DirectX Capture
4. Go back to the paused movie and hit the Scroll Lock key.
5. It will then automatically switch back to Any Capture and you screen shot will appear.
6. File>Save As and then save it as a .bmp. No other file type will work for some reason.

You can also practice with your desktop capturing it.

I hope this is clearer than mud! I am happy that I have learned something new today!

Rebecca

Wow, 11 responses! Thanks everyone! It's true, most DVDs have anti-theft protection on them so you cannot copy & paste anything from them on your PC. That's why I mentioned that you do need a special capturing device to do it successfully.

I am definitely going to download that tucows program, which I didn't know existed (otherwise I'd have been doing my own captures a long time ago LOL). Thank you very much for finding that for me Rebecca.

The reason I requested captures was that I plan to do a pixel doll of Briseis in that gown. (for anyone who doesn't know, I am a pixel doll artist and have posted a few of my dolls here in the past).

THANKS AGAIN! I will let you know how it goes! :)

Your welcome Amy! Tucows is a great resource for finding free and shareware software trials. That is where I found a trial of PSP 9 to play with.

Would love to see your pixel dolls!

Rebecca

Well, bad news. I already had AnyCapture (by Tucows) installed on my PC, which means I tried it twice now with no luck. The program takes the capture, but the image moves around and saves as nothing but a black box.

I don't understand how so many people have made their own stills from this movie. They must have high-tech capturing devices, the kind that hook up to your DVD player on your TV.

Anyway, I'll just have to do my doll while watching and pausing the movie a lot.

Thanks for the help anyway. I will email you my pixel doll website link :)

Amy I had the same thing happen :(
Maybe it's some sort of protection in our players that Rebecca is able to bypass.
Sue.

Amy,
While in the pause mode, can you take a picture of it with your camera hoping there is no scanning lines?
Then download your pictures to your computer.
I have gotten my desktop that way in a picture which looks like it matched the camera speed?

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~Urlee~

Hi again,

I found in the Tucows FAQ that to solve the problem you can disable the hardware acceleration in the program that's running the DVD (i.e. Windows Media Player), so I did that, but I still couldn't make any captures.

Urlee, that's not a bad idea, however I don't have a digital camera (YET----I'm planning to buy myself one later this year if I can).....

Well, I never did get the movie stills, and I was anxious to do this doll (not sure why LOL), so I ended up replaying the scene and pausing a lot and did my doll. I am very happy with it. I figured I'd post it here for you to see since I made a big thread out of the subject LOL:

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body base by Solace.

Amy - FANTASTIC!!!!!
We watched Troy last night and you have portrayed her very well - LOL please don't ask me her name - Portius or something wasn't it.
Sue :)

Thank you Sue! It is Briseis. :) A few months ago I did Hector, in the outfit he and Paris wear on the ship heading for Troy. That was my first Troy doll. I think the only other one I might do is Helen, in the white and gold dress.

She is beautiful Amy! Glad you found a solution!

Rebecca

Thanks Rebecca! :) It was difficult because the entire scene is comprised of her running, and there is only a split second where they show a full-body shot of the dress. The rest of the time is from the chest up. lol