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Capturing Frames From Your Favorite Scenes

Capturing Frames From Your Favorite Scenes

CyberLink PowerDVD lets you capture individual frames from your favorite scenes during the playback of video. CyberLink PowerDVD gives you the choice to capture the frames and save them as a file, as wallpaper or as the CyberLink PowerDVD startup image. You can also choose to capture the image to your clipboard for use else where on your computer.

Note: This feature is disabled during the playback of Blu-ray Disc titles.

Configuring Capture Options

CyberLink PowerDVD lets you select your desired capture type and size quickly and conveniently before you are ready to capture a frame.

Note: More capture options, including setting capture format and custom size, are available within Player Settings. See Capture for more information.

To configure the capture options, do this:

  1. During the playback of video content, click on the button on the playback controls and then right-click on the button. The capture options will display.
  2. Set the capture destination options as follows:
    • Capture to Clipboard: select this option to capture the image to your clipboard, which can then be manually pasted to another location or program.
    • Capture as File: select this option to capture the image as a file in the specified format to the Snapshot folder on your computer.
    • Capture as Wallpaper (Center): select this option to set the captured image as centered background wallpaper on your computer’s desktop.
    • Capture as Wallpaper (Tile): select this option to set the captured image as tiled background wallpaper on your computer’s desktop.
  3. Set the capture size options as follows:
    • Original Video Source Size: select this option to capture the image at the size of the original video, e.g. 720X480 or 720X576 for most DVD titles.
    • Current Video Window Size: select this option to capture the image at the same size you are currently viewing it at.
    • Custom Size: select this option to capture images in the customized size specified on the Capture tab in the Settings window.

Capturing Images

  1. During playback, simply click the button in the More Functions window or press C on your keyboard to capture a frame of the current video content.
  2. To be more precise, you may pause the scene, play it in slow motion, or step frame, and then capture the exact desired frame of video.

Note: The location of captured images is set within the Player Settings. See Capture for more information.
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