Whats the quickest way of taking screen caps for galleries?

[BOSS]

Is there a good free tool. That just takes screenshots saves it as a file in a certain size u want?

[frankthetank]

Is there a good free tool. That just takes screenshots saves it as a file in a certain size u want?

I´m using irfanview http://www.irfanview.com/ which allows to copy screencaps diretly from the mpg file. Maybe that helps...

[Lemmy]

Windows Movie Maker lets you take screen shots, but it's a little bit cumbersome and you'll have to fine tune them later. I just got Frame Shots (http://www.frame-shots.com/), it's $35 but IMO well worth the money.

[tickler]

I found a free tool called Movie Snapshot that works pretty good.

[selena]

Not free, but has a free demo, I think.

http://www.frame-shots.com/

[KG Gary]

Media Player Classic has an option to "Save thumbnails" which exports a picture file containing screenshots taken throughout the clip.
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_players/media_player_classic.cfm
Not sure if that's exactly what you are after, but it's free anyway.
:)

[digital2]

Frame Shots without dude..

[QuickDraw]

I use Frame Shots too. Copy the code below into a text file and save it as make_thumbnails.bat or whatever you want and it will create 8 screenshots for every movie file in the directory that the batch file is run in. I usually make 8 and keep the best one for each movie as sometimes they're blurry or just dont represent whats going on in the clip very well. Anyway


FOR /F %%a IN ('dir *.mpeg *.avi *.mpg *.wmv /b') DO frameshots -thumbs 8 -cropthumb -width 320 -height 200 -trimthumb %%a ..\thumbs


That's the code for the batch file, pretty self explainitory. You also need to add the path to the frameshots.exe file in your PATH environment variable by right clicking on 'My Computer', go to the advanced tab, down at the bottom click the 'Environment Variables', in the 'System variables' section, find Path, edit it, add ";C:\Program Files\Frame Shots" to the end of what's already there ( note the semicolon, and DONT delete what is there already ) and you might have to reboot. After that though, simply copy your batch file into a folder that contains movies you want to make screenshots of and double click it. It'll save them to ..\thumbs, change to whatever you want. See the website for more info reguarding the various options you can pass to the exe.