screen grab

[hotrod351]

a friend sent me a home made movie and i would like to screen grab a couple pictures at certain points but when i try it says no screen grab. how do i get around this. id like to freeze the picture, which i can do, then be able to click a picture of a setion of the frame, i have a powermac g4 digital audio with osx tiger.

 

[pianoman]

shift+cmd+4 converts your mouse pointer into a selection tool that you can drag; the area around which you drag will be the image saved to a screen shot on your desktop.

if you're watching the video full screen, you can use shift+cmd+3, which takes a shot of your entire screen.

 

[acearchie]

You could simpky take a picture of the screen...

+Shift+3 (fullscreen shot)
+Shift+4 (give you a selection tool so you can click+drag the area that you want a picture of)
+Shift+4 Then space (gives you a camera tool that lets you take pictures of individual windows i.e. the greyed out areas!)

Hope this helps!

 

[119576]

What program are you using to play the movie back? I don't think screen grab is available while using iDVD. You could try VLC

 

[acearchie]

I didnt know that iDVD played DVD's

do you mean DVD Player?