Salisbury — Jan 7th 2009

A good turn out for our first meeting of the year and two new members - Nick & Susanna, welcome. As requested, many people made an extra effort to bring along their Macs so we had a good selection of machines to play with and explain just how you do the things that had some of us baffled. We couldn't persuade DVD Player to let us pause a DVD and take a screen shot though, so if anyone knows how, please let me in on it. I don't include ripping to the hard disc and importing into iMovie, that's cheating!

There were three or four groups around machines and people moved from group to group as the mood or raucous laughter from the next group took them. By the end of the evening we had at least solved some problems and adjourned to the local restaurant to continue discussion way into the night.

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Barry Read said…

Hi Mick, Found the answer below on the web to taking a screen shot from iDVD. I have verified it works. Its easier cheating than ripping to the hard disc.

1) Put your DVD in your computer and open DVD Player (Applications -> DVD Player) if it does not open automatically. Go to Video -> Maximum Size, or hit Command-3. Fast forward to the frame you want to capture, or select the scene to start at.

2) Open the Terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal). Type this, or copy / paste it right in the Terminal:

screencapture -i ~/Desktop/dvd.png

Your mouse should turn into crosshairs. Now hit the space bar. Your mouse should now be a camera. Click the window the DVD is playing in. A file called "dvd.png" will appear on your desktop.

3) Sweet! If you want, you can go into Photoshop or another image editing application and trim off the window part of the capture.

Mick Burrell said…

Thanks Barry. Neither Grab nor the Mac OS keyboard shortcuts would do that.
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