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[astrokittie]

I am behind on current animu because I'm afraid that if I watch it, I'll screencap more and then I'll make more icons.

|71| Kuragehime
|22| Mushishi
|64| Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
|57| Togayinu no Chi
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|214| TOTAL

Comments

[sappy_vcv]

I really love your coloring on the Panty and Stocking icons! Definitely snagging a bunch of Scanty and Kneesocks.

If you don't mind me asking, what do you use to make your screencaps? I've been really wanting to make some icons of the show myself, but I'm not use whether to find raws and use a program or just use HD youtube and print screen or what.

[astrokittie]

Thank you!

I just use VLC and its snapshot feature. I actually just get subs (as long as they're .mkvs, because you can turn the subs off/on) and cap from them.

[sappy_vcv]

Okay, thank you so much! I've been really bouncing back and forth on what to try, and I really admire how crisp and clean your iconed screencaps look, and how pretty your coloring is. I use to only screencap DVDs and never had much of an idea on what to use for videofiles, so I'll give that a shot.

/goes to look through other posts, because I see a lot of my fandoms in the tags ♥

[astrokittie]

Thanks, and good luck! If you need any help you can PM me? VLC is fairly straightforward though. I honestly don't think it's the best program to use (since you have to go into a menu and can't just hit a button to cap as you're watching) but unfortunately none of the other free video players that also have screencapping capabilities have ever worked for me.

I hope you find something else! I am alllllllll over the place fandom-wise.

[flashily]

Have you tried KM Player? It's what I use for watching/capping because I had so many problems using VLC.

Also, holy shit, that's a lot of icons. O.O

[astrokittie]

Nope, I've never even heard of it! What is it's screencapping feature like?

I told you I made a fuckton. ):

And now if I watch the like... 4 or 5 episodes of stuff that I've been neglecting, I'm afraid that I'll cap even more.

[flashily]

It has a lot of different options, all of which are controllable with key functions, and you can also move forward (and backward) frame by frame with another key. If you choose the quick capture option it'll autosave the file according to the settings you chose for it. You can also choose whether you want it original size or as it appears on your screen or the specific frame as opposed to just the way it paused. There's also an option where you can choose what to save it as and where. And there's an option to save it to your clipboard if you just want to pop it into photoshop or paint quickly.

And it plays virtually every file type. http://kmplayer.en.softonic.com/

But see, if you wait even longer, then you'll have even more episodes to cap...

[astrokittie]

UGGGGGGHHGHGHSGJHDSG FRAME BY FRAME?

YOU MEAN I CAN MAKE A .GIF OF ALBITRO'S RAPETIME FACE?
Well damn, I guess I'll have to download it at least for doing that. Thanks!

And in the end, I'll still cap everything. I just need to be more selective in my capping. I threw out so many caps from Kuragehime and I still wound up with 71 icons.

[flashily]

YUP. FRAME BY FRAME.

You're welcome. And god, I sound like such a salesman in that comment.

I need to stop being lazy and DL things instead of streaming them on Hulu so that I can do screencaps.

[astrokittie]

UUUGGH DO WANT. It'd be even easier if I could find a raw .avi of the episode, but I haven't seen one so I guess I will have to cap it frame by frame.

Yes, yes you do.

[flashily]

Good luck!

It just comes naturally? IDK. I don't ever notice it until after the fact.