Hi Franz You won't be able to capture using screen capture. Video footage runs at 25fps or 29.97fps and snap shot in OSX relies on a static frame.
Basically, the best way of getting the footage captured is to use an edit suite tool like Final Cut Pro, you'll need to import the footage and use the shuttle controls in the app to accurately pinpoint the playhead on the frame you want before you can export the still. It would be best to import isolated sections of video, ie. 30 seconds at a high bit rate and then take a still from that. Export the image as an uncompressed TIFF or TGA file, that way eliminating any compression artefacts. If you don't have Final Cut or something similar, you need to use a programme with a track controller so you can pinpoint the precise frame, it's a bit of a lottery otherwise and you can end up with transition frames and interlacing...it can get messy and it's a case of garbage in, garbage out. I've never used anything but AVID or FCP so don't know whats out there but do know that there is a knocked down version of Final Cut 4 called Final Cut Express, it might do the business and still export is a simple part of an edit suite's functionality so you'd probably be ok. I don't know what it would cost but if its something that you will need to do regularly, then it might be worth it. You can also drag frames out of Quicktime Pro but it's a bit quick and dirty and quality won't be as good. You could try going to a post production house and asking them to do it. London Post or Oasis in SOHO are both excellent and have full AVID suites for which this sort of work is a piece of cake. Hope this helps Alex > I am thinking to grab some scene of a film I have worked on > and that I have only on DVD. The final use would be quite > small stuff (3x4" or similar) for publicity purposes. I would > prefer to do it myself, I have a G4 ibook running OSX. > > When I tried with Grab an error message appeared saying NOT > ALLOWED. Same with COMMAND+SHIFT+3 Any pointers? =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
