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Our BetterMost Community => Chez Tremblay => Topic started by: Flashframe777 on April 12, 2006, 02:57:46 pm
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Maybe you Mac enthusiasts already know this, but I have come across a great way to do captures from the DVD player on Mac OSX. Finally, I can join the ranks of the top screen-capturists, and you can too:
You can add a DVD screen grab command to Apple's script menu. In OS X, the steps are simple:
Log in as owner or admin.
Open the Script Editor utility in ~/Applications/AppleScript/.
Type the following: do shell script "screencapture ~/Desktop/DVD-screenshot.png"
Save the Script as "DVD Screenshot" in the following location: ~/LIbrary/Application Support/DVD Player/Scripts.
If there isn't a folder called "DVD Player" in your Application Support folder, just create one. Then create a Scripts folder inside of that, and save your script there.
The next time you run DVD player, a new menu item will appear in the script menu: DVD Screenshot. Pause the movie at the desired location, choose the menu item, and the entire screen (movie included) will be saved to your desktop as "DVD-Screenshot."
You can open this with Preview and crop it or print it from there.
It's really cool.