#screencaps tutorial

[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!

[march9rps]

Hi! I was wondering how you do your screenshots? do you know of one that's mac friendly? thanks in advance

Hello there! Sorry for the late reply, I have a lot going  on, But Ill seperate the ask into catergories. Advanced Credit to @tasksweekly​, @scifiphan​, and @bradleyjizzames​, and @ositoedits, @dear-indies  . I only collected the links. 

Question 1 How do I do screencaps. 

For icons sometimes I just use Windows + Printscreen. and/or PotPlayer

For gifs I use Potplayer 100% of time

Please note that both methods I use windows 10, so because of this it wouldnt make sense for me to write an extended tutorial.However if you need an extended tutorial just message me.

Question 2 Mac Friendly Screencap Devices and Tutorials

In this case I will turn your attention to @tasksweekly​ number 1 here  the following links you should look into are. 

Devices

VLC Player

Adapter 

UMPlayer 

Links to Tutorials 

VLC Player for MAC by planetariiums

VLC Automated Capping by lucyrpgs

KMPlayer by vulpxes

Adapter by itsphotoshop

Adapter by vulpxes

UMPlayer by itsphotoshop

Alternatives to KMPlayer by itsphotoshop

Question 3  Mac Friendly Editing Software 

Because 90% of the time this is the follow-up Question so to save myself that time. I’ll link to the following. 

Photoshop Download/Tutorials (working as of 8/24/2019)

One

Two

Three

Tasksweekly  list a fair amount of tutorials and links to software for Gimp, Photoscape, etc.

 Number Two Rp Icons  Here 

Number 3 Gifs  Here  

Photopea-which lets you add psds!

One

That’s all the advice I can give considering I don’t have a Mac and I hope this helps. If anyone with a mac has software or tutorial inputs please feel free to reply below.

[randomkiwibirds]

I’m getting the mood to make a screencapping tutorial again....Would anyone be interested in a screencapping tutorial? If not that’s totally fine I’ll resist and the mood will pass and I will undoubtly be back here asking again when it returns (because it will!)

- The Screencap Goddess 

[wintersovereign]

Screencaping: A Do It Yourself Guide.

Icons have become a roleplaying staple and it’s nice to be able to make you own, sometimes it’s more easily said than done. There are a lot of sites that post them for public use but it can be hard to find content for obscure (or older) movies and shows which leave you having to take your own. I’ve noticed that a lot of the roleplaying community goes about this the hard way – using either the print screen or snipping tool to take their screencaps one by one – this is tedious and unnecessary, I’m going to teach you an easier way to get quality screencaps like @hq-screencaps and @grande-caps post.

There are two programs that I’m aware of, KMPlayer and this video to .jpg converter @viridisalae turned me on to. I haven’t tried the latter yet so we’re going to focus on KMPlayer since I’m more familiar with it. Please keep in mind I am self-taught, there may be other ways to accomplish the same thing in this program, if so please message me and I’ll gladly add it in.

Step #1

After you’ve installed the program and have it open you’re going to right-click anywhere in the ‘screen’ area and select Capture, another menu will open, in it select Frame Extract.

A new window will open, this is one we will keep open for the entirety of this project. It’s where you control your screencapture settings.screencapture settings.

Step #2

This is where my being self-taught comes into play. I learned using a lot of trial and error and these are the settings that work best for what I need.

Chose a destination folder for your caps to be saved in (kmplayer does have a default folder but having one in mind in advance is helpful) and name what you want the title for each frame to be, this is from beauty and the beast 2017. the _ separates the number sequence from the title so it’s easier to read. You can call yours whatever you like as well as deciding how high you want those numbers to go. I use 4 digit numbers for movies and three for television shows.

Make sure in the number to extract section you have continuously selected, this keeps the program capping in the background so you don’t have to do anything. Size to extract is the size of the screencaps you’ll end up with, I’ve found original size works best for clarity.

In the frames to extract section, you can choose how many frames it takes each second or minute, that’s a matter of personal preference. For beauty and the best I did 2 frames per second which yielded around 14,000 (a lot) usable screencaps (about 300+ icons per character I did). Once you have it set up to your preferences click the video player again, the settings window should stay open beneath it.

Step #3

Load your movie, show, whatever video content you’re going to be working with and select Open. It should begin to play within a few seconds.

Click the settings window you moved to the background and click Start, the screencaping will begin. It will give you stats while it runs, you can mute the sound and go lurk on Tumblr or have a snack if you don’t feel like watching the movie. The program will continue to screencap for you. No more taking caps one frame at a time.

[r-chelberry]

How To: Color Screencaps with Photoshop (for beginners)

Some of you wanted to know how I color my screencaps, so here comes a quick and simple tutorial! 

Btw - I’m working with Photoshop CS6, though I’m pretty sure you can also use any other version of Photoshop. Things might look slightly different, but the basic settings are included in almost every version. So here it goes...

1) Get your screencaps. 

You can take them yourself of get some from the internet. I do both, depending on the quality of the caps I find online. 

2) Add Curves. 

Screencaps tend to be very dark and you wanna change this first. You click on this green thing here and then you just play around with the curve.

This is the one I’m using on my example picture. You can also click on Auto and Photoshop will try to do this job for you, though that doesn’t always work as well. 

This is how the picture looks after adding the curves.

3) Change the brightness and contrast.

It basically works the same way: you click on the green thing and try around until you think it looks good. Again, there is an Auto button that could help you out. It’s never bad to just click on Auto and then start adjusting it.

So this is how the picture looks after adding curves, brightness and contrast. 

4) Final touches.

Your picture already looks much better now, but you want to give it some more color. For that, you can do loads of stuff. For example: 

Pink = Vibrance (makes the colors more or less intense; this is only available in the most recent versions of ps)

Blue = Color Balance (the easiest way to change colors, or add some more color to your picture)

Yellow = Color Lookup (add pre-made filters or make your own ones)

Red = Selective Color aka my favorite (you can highlight specific colors, change colors, e.g. make water purple or trees blue. It’s also really helpful if your picture is too red/orange/pink/whatever or lacks a certain tone)

So yeah, just click on those things and you’ll understand what to do. Use as many new layers as you want to. Sometimes it can only be 4-5, sometimes up to 20. Just play around with the different tools and you’ll see what works and what doesn’t. You can also start with the “final touches” and do the rest afterwards. That’s up to you.  

So these are all of my layers for the finished psd.

And this is the final result! Pretty easy, right?

Well, no, not always. I have to admit that with some screencaps, this simple process can take forever. You don’t find a good lighting or the colors just look really weird and that can be frustrating. But it always depends on the lighting in the scene you’re screencapping and thankfully, most of the time it’s alright. 

If you color multiple screencaps, just try to sort them into groups: all outdoor scenes, darker scenes, scenes in the woods, etc. This way you won’t have to change all of your settings after every single screencap.

Also, here is another important thing: I already sharpened the screencap in this tutorial. If you don’t do this, your final result will look like this:

It doesn’t look too bad, but it’s not as sharp and smooth as the first one. 

If you wanna know how to sharpen it and get a better quality in the end, just click here because I already made a tutorial on that topic!

And that’s it. I hope this helped you and if you have any more questions, just hit me up :)  

[things-to-help-you]

Tutorial de Screencaps

Bom, antes de qualquer coisa, vocês precisam de algumas programas o primeiro programa é o aTube. Baixe o programa e logo em seguida baixe também o KMPlayer.

Parte de como baixar o vídeo.

Você vai no youtube, acha seu vídeo e copia a URL em questão. Abre o aTube e clica naquele "colar". Eu geralmente não mudo o formato do vídeo, não procuro um formato certo, baixo no formato que ele tem mesmo. Então em "perfil de saída" você vai por: "Não conversão (somente baixe o arquivo original). Então clique em baixar. Ao clicar em baixar, vai aparecer uma janela tipo essa. Sempre escolha o valor maior para o vídeo, que é a versão HD que esta no youtube. Geralmente nós que escolhemos em qual formato vamos assistir aquele clip, a versão HD demora mais para carregar em net lenta, por isso tem essa opção de escolher. Então, ao baixar aparece essa janela com os formatos do vídeo. Creio que sempre é a primeira opção a maior. Ao selecionar o formato aperte em baixar e então o download começara.

Parte dos screencaps

Abra o programa KMPlayer. Ao abrir clique no player, ao clicar no player vai abrir uma janela e então você escolhe o vídeo que quer tirar os screens.

Quando você escolher automaticamente o vídeo vai começar a tocar, então dê pause e volte para o começo do vídeo.

Na sua área de trabalho, crie uma pasta e a nomeie como desejar. Essa pasta é onde os screens ficarão.  Volte para o KMPlayer, e lá vai ter seu vídeo pausado, certo? Então, aperte CTRL+G. Vai abrir a janela de extração de quadros. Mude o "extrair para" clicando na pastinha que fica logo do lado, vai abrir uma janelinha e então você desce e clica na pasta que foi criada por você. Deixe os comandos assim e logo a seguir aperte "iniciar". Ao clicar em iniciar, dê play no seu vídeo e espere ele terminar.

Quando o vídeo terminar, feche o programa e vá até a pasta do destino que foi dado para os screencaps ficarem e eles estarão lá.

Beijos ;♥