screen capture/screen grab movies

[nosmarie]

Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to take a screen shot/screen grab ect. movies on mac? Because I wanted to put it as my desktop and take a few and just have them alternating. Thanks!

 

[BlueRevolution]

Wait, slow down. You want to do what what? Take video screenshots and use them as your desktop?

 

[johto]

Do you mean still images from movie playing?

Just use the normal screen capture keys while having the movie on pause/playing on fullscreen

cmd+shift+3

 

[BlueRevolution]

Ah yes, that would make some sense. It's not the most clearly-worded post I've ever read, put it that way.

Unfortunately, johto's trick won't work in DVD Player. It'll be fine in QuickTime, though.

 

[ethical]

after collecting your screen grabs, put them all in a folder, and in system preferences under desktop you can select that folder and check the "change every x minutes" box.

 

[nebarik]

if its DVD's your playing and need to take screens of. try using VLC player. either the standard screenshot (cmd+shift+3) or the inbuilt screenshot function VLC player has