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VLC automatic screencapping tutorial

Mar 17, 2007 00:26

Welcome everyone to my humble graphics journal! Tonight we will go literally step by step as I teach you how to automatically screencap with VLC. (i.e., the computer does it for you.)

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me; I'll try my best to answer them.

( Oh bugger )

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poipu March 17 2007, 20:26:16 UTC

Well. Heh.

I JUST SCRENCAPPED THE MENU.*ded*

(Know what I should put in for Episode 1? HALP. It just keeps replaying the menu. I'll have a zillion of the same caps.)

poipu March 17 2007, 20:27:26 UTC

Scrath that, it didn't even cap a thing. I have serious issues.

amethyststeam March 17 2007, 20:49:22 UTC

Did you change "Chapter" to 1? You can only leave it at 0 if you're capping a movie; say like how I capped Pirates. Make sure you changed "Title" to 1, also.

If you're having problems still after that; taking a few screencaps would help. :) (Help me figure out what's wrong; I mean)

poipu March 17 2007, 21:41:13 UTC

I changed chapter to "3" and heard episode 203 playing, but no caps went into the file I set it to. I have NO CLUE whats going on.

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alpaca4eva March 20 2007, 02:05:20 UTC

Heeyyy! Thanks for the tutorial, but does it cap stuff that you don't have on DVD too? Say a downloaded episode of Naruto?

*listens to an episode of Lost as VLC screencaps... hopefully*

amethyststeam March 20 2007, 21:22:34 UTC

If you can open it with VLC; then yes. =)

Also, one last thing I forgot to add in the tutorial is that the caps are under a folder under "My Computer" then "Drive C" then "Program Files" then "Video Lan" then "VLC" and the caps will be in that folder. They'll appear nowhere else but there, must as you try. xD

alpaca4eva March 20 2007, 22:11:47 UTC

Omg. It's like you read my mind or something. XD I was just about to PM you about where the caps would end up. Thank you!

Whoo! It worked! I've got 1745 caps for 45 minutes of video. It's weird though, every other cap is of the menu screen. O_O

It's a cap from the episode, menu screen, another episode cap, menu screen, etc. Do you know why it's like that?

amethyststeam March 20 2007, 23:49:30 UTC

xDD I just know that I forgot to put that in my tutorial and was reminded of that fact when poipu was confused; so I made sure to tell you that as well. xD

I'll make sure to add that to the tutorial so I don't have to repeat myself and others don't have to ask now. xD

Wow, what setting did you set it to? xD 1745 caps for 45 minutes of video; but I can't say anything; I got a little over 6,000 caps for PotC: DMC. xD Of course, now I have to go back and delete all the bad ones.....xDDD

And that's funky; that's never happened to me. 0_0 But you have all the caps from the episode, right? You're not missing any, are you?

If not, I know it's painstaking but you probably should just delete the menu ones and you'll be fine. xD

Oh and one last tip; make SUREEEE to MOVE the caps to another folder before you cap again---otherwise VLC writes over your nice caps. x_x

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endlessdeep April 1 2007, 22:31:08 UTC

Ack! Your entry at icontutorial was deleted before I could ask my question. thank goodness I saw it before that happened. Because I was wondering just today how to make screencaps in VLC.

And here's my question after reading your wonderful tutorial here.

What if I am not capping from a DVD, but from a VLC media file (.avi). Would the settings or anything else be different in VLC?

Thanks so much. :)

amethyststeam April 1 2007, 22:47:37 UTC

The mod got mad at me for posting that just because it's a large community and it was an off-topic question. x_x

But where else was I supposed to post it? Besides; caps have to do with icons, so it's not completely off topic. -.-

Oh and no problem. =)

I'm sure the settings would pretty much be the same; with the title at 0 and the chapter at 0; I'd try it with the same settings first to see if it works (I'm not sure myself; sorry D:) and if it doesn't; either try to change some of the settings or come back here and I'll try to help you. =)

endlessdeep April 1 2007, 23:21:44 UTC

OK, thanks. I'll try your tut first and see how it goes.

I'm just glad I saw your entry before it got deleted. Because I was getting ready to post a question asking how to screencap in VLC. :)

amethyststeam April 2 2007, 04:19:48 UTC

Okay; tell me how it goes. =) (Also I'm not sure who I told this to; but a thing I forgot to add in the tutorial is that the caps are under a folder under "My Computer" then "Drive C" then "Program Files" then "Video Lan" then "VLC" and the caps will be in that folder. They'll appear nowhere else but there, must as you try. xD

And no problem; glad I could be of help! =D

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artic_fox April 6 2007, 11:35:46 UTC

Question! :D

I haven't actually tried it yet, because I just downloaded the program, but I was wondering if this only auto caps. I'm after something that manually caps - ie: I can find a shot I like, and then cap it. Does this program do that, and if so, how the hell do I make it work? ;P

amethyststeam April 6 2007, 18:00:43 UTC

No, no no! It most DEFINITELY does regular caps too. =DD

If you want me to show you how to do that too; I can make a tutorial on that today sometime hopefully as well and post it here. ^_^ (It'll be a shorter tutorial than this; it doesn't take that long to figure how to take manual caps ^^)

artic_fox April 6 2007, 23:20:08 UTC

I would appreciate that so very very much if you could! Of course, no hurry at all - I'm not in a rush, but you made this tutorial so easy to follow, I couldn't think of a better person to ask. But as I said, no rush at all; just whenever you have time :)

how do you manually cap things? artic_fox October 10 2007, 15:15:38 UTC

it's great that you can cap vids automatically... but i want to make gifs... and so i just want to cap a certain scene... i wonder if you can make a tutorial for manually capping scenes...:) thank you

great tut btw...

awkwardnormalcy April 22 2007, 19:22:26 UTC

Thank you so much for this tutorial ^^ I just have one question that you might've answered but I missed it ^^; if so I apologize >.>, anyways, I want to screencap a episode thats saved on my computer, its not on disc, how do I do that?

amethyststeam April 26 2007, 02:39:42 UTC

No, it's alright. =) I've never screencapped an episode on my computer, but I think you should be able to open it up in VLC through the same methods here only going to the place where it's saved; when you downloaded VLC it should have changed a lot of the file formats of video files to VLC accessable files but I dunno about downloadable files.

Sorry if this doesn't work. :x