Techie help

[Marshy]

Is there a way of creating pictures off a DVD or blue ray disk ?

A friends wedding pictures were a disaster and wants to know if this is possible.

 

[The Large One]

I assume you mean jpeg or tiffs stored on a disc?

Yeah, sling them on your computer and send them to print. Or, send them to a printers.

Is that what you're asking?

 

[Woodchip]

I would guess he means screen captures.

 

[Marshy]

Yes sorry, pictures from screen captures

 

[magoo]

If you have DVD/Blu-ray player on your PC then it's possible the software used to play the discs can take stills when you pause the action.

 

[The Large One]

The problem with a screen capture is that it's done at screen resolution (72dpi). Most digital printers would consider you'd need at least 200dpi for a decent print, while commercial printing is done at 300dpi.

So yes, it can be done - but the image quality / size might not be that great.

 

[Tomnorthi]

Whack it in any editing software then export as a .tiff or .jpeg.
I do it in premiere pro all the time.

 

[ifuhatepalacestandup]

use any player to play the disc then hit alt /prt screen to take sreen capture (wich captures the image to notepad) once this is done open windows paint and goto edit tab at top and click paste, once done you should see the image then go to file tab and click save image as
hope this helps

 

[phoenix]

You can take DVD frames (stills) using vlc.Not great quality but you can do it.

You can also advance it 1 frame at a time, so you get the exact still you require.