REQUIRED PROGRAMS:
| Cyberlink PowerDVD 6 | } commercial |
| Ahaview (www.aha-soft.com) | } |
| AutoRenamer (www.webxpace.com) | } Freeware |
| Easy Thumbnails (www.fookes.com) | } |
Everyone likes to have framegrabs on their sites, and this is the quick and easy way to do it when using a DVD. It saves having to download episodes and then delete them later because this way you can get the framegrabs directly from DVD.
I'll assume that you're using Windows. And step 11 & 12 may differer for Mac and Linux.
1. Insert your DVD into your DVD drive, and load Power DVD.
2. Before you load the actual DVD, its better to configure your framegrab output. Press Ctrl+C to enter the configuration.
3. In the Player tab, click Advanced.
4. Go to the Snapshot Tab, then check the "Capture to File" tab and browse for the directory you want your framegrabs to be stored in and the number sequence, but the number sequnence doesnt matter, so we can leave that.
5. Click OK, and OK again.
6. Now load your DVD and go into your episode like you would on a standard DVD Player.
7. As you watch your episode press the space bar to pause then C to capture and thats all for the PowerDVD stage.
8. Next is the Aha-View stage. On the left browse for the directory that your Framegrabs are in and then hightlight all the framegrabs.
9. Press Ctrl+T to bring up a dialog box, check JPG and then Ok.
10. Close Aha-View.
11. Open up the folder that your framegrabs are stored in using Windows Explorer (as you normally view your computer)
12. Make this viewed in "Detailed" mode, and delete all the Bitmap images (filesizes are over 500KB which gives them away, and delete them from the Recycle Bin if you want.)
13. Open up AutoRenamer. This will rename the files to something decent. I tend to numberate files by # + extention. So select that.
14. Click "Choose Files" to browse for the framegrabs. And highlight them. Click ok.
15. Make sure that they are all in numberical order (remember PowerDVD puts a number from 000 to whatever at the end)
16. You can edit the "Base Unit to..." to something other than "001" I like to use "1"
17. Click Rename files.
18. You may get a warning if you have more than 10 images thats okay, it just means that you'll have to repeat the same process for the first 9. Unless you're happy with 01, 02 etc...
19. Close AutoRenamer.
20. Open the folder that your Framegrabs are in again, and create a folder in there called "small" (or similar eg. "thumbs")
21. Copy and Paste all your full size framegrabs into it.
22. Open Easy Thumbnails.
23. On the left, click the Settings Tab and change the thumbnail width and hight to what you want (I use 60x45) and have the resize box to "Best Fit"
24. Delete the contents of the Prefix/Suffix box.
25. Using the lower left boxes in the Files tab, browse for your framegrabs's thumbnails folder created in Step 20.
26. Then Click Make All and it'll create the thumbnails.
27. Close Easy Thumbanils.
28. Code into your website.