#screencapping tutorial

[argentangelhelps]

HOW TO SCREENCAP & POST YOUR CAPS : A MOSTLY COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE

i got an ask about this, and it felt like it was too long of an explanation to answer in an ask so i made this guide. i am definitely not the expert (as proven by the fact that my VLC tutorial is two links to better tutorials than i could ever make) , but i hope this is helpful!

TABLE OF CONTENTS - finding stuff to cap - capping 101 - storage

FINDING STUFF TO CAP the less "crime" you do while doing this the better honestly. make someone else do it for you and if you absolutely must sail the seven seas 🏴‍☠️ for the love of god use a good vpn and anti-virus. the safest way to find downloads is to find pages who post them for you to use - on tumblr that is hdsources ! we love hdsources here - there are also pages on instagram (and apparently the site formerly known as twitter, but i don't use those) who post downloads of stuff. my favorites on insta are megaawrld_ , logolessfiles2.0, djatsscenes, sadisticscenes and elyse.logoless . to get into these pages you do have to have an instagram account, but once you get in you can get links to them posting shows and movies. this is significantly safer than p*racy. the next step if these pages don't have what you want is to get them yourself through other ways. if you have to do that, GET A FUCKING VPN.

CAPPING 101 now that you have something to cap, it's time to actually make screencaps. you're gonna wanna download a program to do that. most people use VLC, i use adapter for the most part but it can be fickle so i'm learning to use VLC too.

adapter doesn't require much in depth so here's a quick tutorial: - have file and drop it into the window (it can read mp4 and mkv files) - select where you want your screencaps to end up, i make a folder for them - select your frame rate (how many images you want to generate per second of video. i tend to do 1, and anything over 5 creates so many pictures that its too much to deal with, but if you're making gifs you want more pictures) - select your file size and image quality.

i could not explain VLC to you if i tried, i am still figuring out how to use it. this tutorial & this tutorial have been very helpful though !

STORAGE

honestly this should have probably come first, but i didn't want to scare people. there are two types of storage, physical and cloud storage. to run a resource blog you need both.

physical storage comes in the form of space on a hard drive. your computer has a limited amount of space and i truly do not suggest keeping every screencap you've ever made on your computer's hard drive. screencaps take up A LOT of space. get an external hard drive and get the beefiest one you can afford. ssds (solid state drives) are fast as fuck. depending on how much content you make (and how much you can afford) get at LEAST 2 tbs but maybe get more. i like this guy cause it's fast and small!

if you just came here to learn how to screencap you can stop here unless you want to learn how to back up your files because that's really what cloud storage is for.

cloud storage is storage that is not on your actual computer. you cannot touch it but it's important if you want to make your screencaps available for other people to use.

i'm a big fan of dropbox, mega, mediafire and if you absolutely must use it google drive. (my preferences are in that order) unfortunately, cloud storage gets really expensive really fast and there's kind of no way to avoid it. compress your files when you upload them so they take up less space in whatever form of cloud storage you do get, and pray.

that's what i got for ya! if you have any questions feel free to send an ask or join my discord server!

[vampiremakes]

HOW TO MAKE SCREENCAPS FROM SHOWS AND MOVIES QUICK.

With hollow-art down, I figured this might be useful to many in the rp community, but might also come in handy for those who create gifs and edits. I will preface this by saying, you should probably be using a VPN for this, since you’re going to have to download / torrent whatever movie and/or tv show you want to screencap. For example NordVPN..

Things you need:

- A VPN (Recommended) - μTorrent (To download the torrent files) - Free video to jpg converter (Download link here) - RARBG.TO - A website (here) to find downloads of movies and/or tv shows. It has an extremely impressive amount of even old and/or unknown movies and shows!

Once you have all of the things listed above, you want to follow these quick steps:

#1. Go to RARBG and search for the movie and/or show you want to download, and pick whichever version you want. It’s usually good to look for someone that has 720p, 1080p, 2160p in the title, as they have higher quality (higher number = higher quality, usually, but they also take up more space on your laptop, so that’s also something to keep in mind.) You want to click the title of the file you want to download, then click the link at the top of the page as pictured in the image above.

#2. Then click on the little utorrent file that pops up at the bottom of the screen, and your utorrent will launch, showing something like the image below.

Uncheck all the ones except the video file(s) themselves you want to download, then click ok, and wait for it to finish downloading. Once it has fully downloaded, the download bar will turn green, and you’ll have the video file in your downloaded files on your laptop.

#3. Open up your free video to jpg converter, and a window will open up like pictured below (just without the file already added in, and there won’t be a ‘convert’ button until you’ve added your file.)

Click ‘add files’, find the video you downloaded, then add that. Then you can choose how many screencaps you want. If you want to be able to make gifs, and have frame-by-frame caps, I recommend choosing the ‘every frame’ option. If you wanna save some space on your laptop, or just don’t need that many frames, you can use the other options to customize for your personal needs! You can choose where you want the caps to be uploaded to in the ‘...’ button next to the ‘save to:  Then just hit ‘convert’ and the screencaps will be downloaded to the location of your choosing!

And that’s pretty much it!

[randomkiwibirds]

At long last my screencapping tutorial is done! Two months of procrastination for two days worth of work! lmao

KMPlayer download: [x]

Video to JPG Converter download: [x]

VLC Media Player Download: [x]

If you have any questions/concerns/carnivorous watermelons feel free to reach out to me and I’ll help you out the best I can :)

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[lucyrpgs]

Automated Screencapping

I’m not sure if there’s a tutorial out there for this or not. I’ve seen tutorials just by searching google, but the only ones I found were older and outdated. The process is actually SUPER SUPER easy.

This tutorial is for setting VLC to automatically take screencaps while you play a video. I’m doing this from a Mac, so the instructions for a PC may differ slightly. If you have any questions, or if I don’t make anything clear enough, please feel free to message me. Feel free to reblog this if this helped you.. I know that, once I learned this, it made batch iconing 110% easier for me. Sorting through screencaps of a two and a half hour movie for my FC is a lot easier than manually screencapping a two and a half hour movie.

Screencaps and instructions below the cut.

STEP ONE is, obviously, open VLC. Go to PREFERENCES, as I show in the screencap below.

Once preferences is open, it’s going to give you the simple version. You’re going to want to expand it by clicking SHOW ALL, like I have below.

Once it’s been expanded, you first want to set your ratio ( you can change this at any time ) as well as what file format it saves as, and where it saves to. Make sure the file you plug in already exists. Go FILTERS > SCENE FILTER. It’ll open the menu below. Set your path. As far as RATIO goes, the lower the number is the more often it takes the screencaps. The easiest advice on this is to simply toy with it to see what setting you like best -- the lower number, the more subtle facial changes you’re going to catch.

Now click on FILTERS again, and make sure that “scene video filter” has a check mark next to it. Then click SAVE.

CLOSE VLC -- you’re going to want to do this anytime you make any changes to this setting for it to take effect. Reopen it and start your video. Open the folder you told it to save the screencaps to and watch them start to pop up!

And there you have it! Super easy. Now you can just start a movie, mute it, and do something else if you would like. Or, you can actually pay attention to the movie without worrying about capping it. 

[helpersofindie-archive]

Under the cut is a tutorial for screencapping with freestudio

FreeStudio is very easy to screencap. I would definitely recommend it. Okay, so you want to start by opening it and clicking ‘Free video to JPEG converter’. After you’ve done that a little screen will pop up!

Now, you want to click on ‘Add files’ and open up what you want to screencap. Now, If it’s a long movie, I usually do every 50 frames but if it’s an episode or a youtube video, I’d do every 20 or 30. So click on every NUMBER frames and choose what you like. Then choose where you want to save it too. I’m capping Grease Live! so I’m saving mine to a folder on my desktop! MAKE SURE IT”S IN A FOLDER. This usually produced 2-3 thousand screencaps for a movie.

Now click convert and it’ll start screencapping! Once it’s done, you’ll hear a ding and they’ll be saved into a folder! Happy capping!

[dear-indies]

Have you guys thought about adding a section with people who are willing to make screencaps on request in your helpful people list? I'm just wondering because the mods of screencapped net are busy and their priority, most of the time, are newer/more known movies. If not that, can you at least point me in the direction of some screencap tutorials so I can make some myself? Thanks a bunch :)

Absolutely! Although we don’t know how many cappers are out there since some have stopped making them because people aren’t respecting their rules when it comes to credit, especially icon makers. Message us if you make screencaps on request or know of any tutorials/programs we have missed.

thequeenoftheheartless — KMPlayer

sheriffsgrahams — KMPlayer

livelaughphotoshop —  KMPlayer using Windows

winterdaylight — KMPlayer

fyeahjustinalex — KMPlayer

purple-inthesky — KMPlayer

colouringshit — KMPlayer

nickjerrys — KMPlayer

Elizabeth D — KMPlayer video

jadeite-icons — VLC

pscs5 — VLC

planetariiums — VLC using Mac

icon-tutorial — VLC using Mac

dkszone — GOM Media Player

Other programs: Media Player Classic, Free Video to JPG Converter, BSPlayer and Image Grabber II.