Screenshot Capturing Tool

[TrueShasha]

Hi, everyone

So, I need to come up with a nice and easy solution to make screenshots from video and I need them to be of a predifined size (even if it's different from the video source) and, if possible, with few filters applied (sharpen + levels correction).

I've been using VirtualDub/VirtualDubMod for that, but the problem is the images should also be saved in .jpg and VirtualDubMod saves only in PNG and couple of other uncompressed formats and VirtualDub can only copy the output image to buffer and, considering the amount of material I am going to need to work with, pasting it into an image editing software and saving as a Jpg from there isn't really an option.

You have any ideas?
Any piece of advice is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

[Baldrick]

You can batch convert png to jpg with for example irfanview.

Or try special screenshot programs like https://www.videohelp.com/tools/Video-Thumbnails-Maker .

[Brad]

A simple way that keeps your current workflow is to save all of the PNG files into a folder, install ImageMagick, and use this as a .bat file in that folder:

mogrify -format jpg *.png
del *.png

Test it without the del command first though.

Or, assuming you're using Avisynth scripts in VirtualDubMod, simply use AvsPmod instead as it supports saving to JPEG as well as a variety of other formats.

[DarrellS]

In Virtualdub, go Video > Copy source frame to clipboard (or copy output frame to clipboard) and paste in photo editor software like Photoshop.

I just tried Irfanview and the frame can be pasted there also if you don't have Photoshop. XNView works also using Edit > Import Clipboard.

Edit: I should've read the whole post, I guess.

You can paste as many frames/layers as you wish in Photoshop and save as PSD file and then open the PSD file in XNView (free) and save as individual files.