Can I pull a HIGH QUALITY picture gallery from a DVD?

[Dunnyman]

I just got the Universal Monster Legacy sets, and they each have a gallery of movie posters. I collect posters, and the originals of these are in the 250,000.00 range, but I've got access to a great, large format inkjet. Is there any way to pull the gallery from the DVD, and if there is, would the images be good enough for print quality? They sure look good on screen, amazingly clear.
If anybody is a fan of Frankenstein, Dracula and the Wolfman, I give these sets 5 stars, they're amazing, and at 20.00 per set, (Target), they're very affordable.

[Manny C]

Highly doubtful that you would be able to produce a high quality print from a screen-resolution image.

Also, unless somewhere on the package it says something like, "includes high-resolution images so you can make your own poster-size prints!" you probably won't find any high-rez images imbedded anywhere on the disc.

[terryj]

it can be done, but it takes some work.
( what else is new, right?)


Go get Capture Me from Version Tracker.com
or macupdate.com

Insert the DVD run the slideshow.
Launch Capture Me, and follow its instructions
to take screenshots of the content.

Thats how you can pull it.
My suggestion would be to first
make sure you can get your viewer window
to display the files at closest to full screen as you can.

It will capture the file large ( Say 720 x 540 at 72 dpi)
but if you half size that ( say 360 x 280 at 200 dpi)
in Adobe Photoshop.
and then print it out to the cleanest white paper on the best
color laser printer you can find/ have access to.

Now scan that clean printout in at actual size, at at least 900 dpi.

The reasoning: By halfing the file from its original size,
and then doubling the dpi, you are forcing more dots
into the smaller space, which would "tighten" up the image.
Printing it out on HQ white laser paper to a good laser printer
( HP, Xerox) will print at the printers default which is 600 dpi.
The Printer will repro the image even tigher than your halfing.
Once you get something good then you can scan it in and what you scan in will have a large resolution than your print out.

Now taking this into say, illustrator, or Freehand, you can size
it to ( scale) the image to 18 x 24 ( dpi should be then about 300)
and this file, depending on your Large Format Printer, should repo
fine.

I've done this several times with college seals that I have had to
get reproduced, from online forms, online admissions catalogs, etc.
It works.

[miksu]

After capturing actual still, you could try somekind fractal enlargement software, like Photozoom. Does wonders for tiny pictures