<html><head><base href="x-msg://2055/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Another software is Snapz Pro X (<a href="http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/">http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/</a>), which doesn't require converting the file before taking a screen grab.<div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Dale</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div><b>Dale Hudson, Ph.D.</b></div><div>Faculty Fellow, Film & New Media | NYUAD</div><div>Digital Curator, FLEFF | <a href="http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff">www.ithaca.edu/fleff</a></div><div><br></div><div>e. <a href="mailto:dale.hudson@nyu.edu">dale.hudson@nyu.edu</a> | t. +971 (0)2 6284153 | m. +971 (0)56 7331715</div></div></div><div><div>P. O. Box 129188, Abu Dhabi UAE | P. O. Box 903, New York NY 10276-0903 USA</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Apr 21, 2012, at 11:31 AM, Jasper Sharp wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><div dir="ltr">THere's a great piece of software called Handbrake, which can convert a DVD to another video file such as mpeg4 (very useful for embedding into PowerPoint presentations, for example). Then you could frame grab from this resulting file.<div><br><br><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">My n</span>ew book,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>The </i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; "><b><i>Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema</i></b>,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> is out now from<a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780810857957" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Scarecrow Press.</a></span></div><br>Jasper Sharp: Writer & Film Curator Homepage<br><a href="http://jaspersharp.com/">http://jaspersharp.com/</a><br><br>Midnight Eye: The Latest and Best in Japanese Cinema<br><a href="http://www.midnighteye.com">http://www.midnighteye.com</a><br><br>Zipangu Fest: Japanarchy in the UK<br><a href="http://zipangufest.com/">http://zipangufest.com/</a><br><br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:23:52 -0400<br>From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:baird@asianlan.umass.edu">baird@asianlan.umass.edu</a><br>To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</a><br>Subject: Re: capturing still images with DVD player<br><br>ON my machine, the Mac DVD disables the screen capture, but there are shareware such as Capture Me that can do the same thing.<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 20, 2012, at 1:32 PM, Eija Niskanen wrote:</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><blockquote><div>Hi!<br><br>How does one capture stil images from a DVD film with Mac DVD player?<br>(I know there is supposed to be some screen capture device for VLC<br>player, but the DVD in question won't open with anything else but DVD<br>player). The system is OSX, DVD region 2.<br><br>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Eija<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="font-style: normal; word-wrap: break-word; ">Bruce Baird<br>Assistant Professor<br>Asian Languages and Literatures<br>University of Massachusetts Amherst<br>Butô, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History<br><br>717 Herter Hall<br>161 Presidents Drive<br>University of Massachusetts Amherst<br>Amherst, MA 01003-9312<br>Phone: 413-577-4992<br>Fax: 413-545-4975<br><a href="mailto:baird@asianlan.umass.edu">baird@asianlan.umass.edu</a></div><div style="font-style: normal; word-wrap: break-word; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; ">For information about my recently published book<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><i>Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh</i><span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span>see:</div><div style="font-style: normal; word-wrap: break-word; "><br></div><div style="font-style: normal; word-wrap: break-word; "><a href="http://us.macmillan.com/hijikatatatsumiandbutoh/BruceBaird" target="_blank">http://us.macmillan.com/hijikatatatsumiandbutoh/BruceBaird</a></div><div style="font-style: normal; word-wrap: break-word; "><br><br></div></span></span></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>