dvd lab motion menu , is this possible??

[ying0yang]

oh! yeah , i know motion menu is possible in dvd lab but here what im thinking about.

is this possible to take some great animated screensaver (for pc) and then transforme or put it in anyway in dvd lab to create a superbe animated background????

maybe it sounds weird but there must be a way to extract the script or anything else in the .exe file to create a avi or mpeg file or put some command line in dvd lab.

something to forget or possible??

thx for your time.

[adam]

There are various programs that can capture anything running on your desktop. Off the top of my head there is HyperCam and SnagIt.

You could capture the visualizations that are created when playing music by WinAmp or Media player, and I guess you could probably do the same for a screensaver too but you'd have to see whether the program supported that. These programs will capture to any codec you have installed, so you could easily convert this output to mpg and use it in a DVD.

[ying0yang]

great , i will give it a try .

hope that work, many good screensaver available

thx for your time

[ying0yang]

i have try many screen capture proggies without success , i cant get some great result without freezing frame and/or fluid video.

some proggies doesnt allow 3d acceleration (using by screensaver)

and the one i have found that allow it (catch3d) cant give me fluid motion.

any other idea for converting and/or capturing theses screensavers to video format that i can use in dvd lab for a motion menu???

still trying to find a way

thx

[guns1inger]

Tripod mount a DV camera in front of an LCD screen and film the screensaver. Transfer this back into the PC and master for DVD. Crude, but it will work.

[ying0yang]

hehe

the simple way !!

just a prob. no lcd screen and no camera .

there is surely a way to do it in the pc.

a way to compile all the info from the screensaver then output it in a video.

anyway , thx for your suggestion

[sacajaweeda]

Give CamStudio a go.

[ying0yang]

i have already try camstudio without success ,

even with 30 fps ,the video still frame freezing.

arrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhh..

im desesperating

thx for your suggestion

[sacajaweeda]

How long a file are you capturing? If it's freezing but not in the same spots all the time maybe you can cap it a few times and splice together enough of the pieces to make the whole clip roll smoothly?

[painkiller]

Tried this one?

http://www.fraps.com/

[anubis13]

try camstudio again.

make sure you are not recording to your OS harddrive, if possible record to a fast alternate HD

use the techsmith codec at 15fps. shut down all other apps. you should get a fairly good peice of video with minimal dropped frames.

open the video in virtualdub and deinterlace where feild a and b extrapolate to separate frames. (smooth deinterlace v1.1 by Gunnar Thalin)
you should now have 30 fps smooth video of your screensaver.

alternately you could re-encode to progressive 29.97 fps DV (for editing) or MPEG

i used this technique to capture some winamp visualization plug-ins

[steptoe]

Hypersnap-DX can capture virtually anything running on your screen, including DirectX and Glide output, plus video, etc, etc

I use it for creating my tutorials as I can capture windows, buttons, animations, blah, blah, and its cheap plus has ongoing support with new versions

[ying0yang]

mmmmmmmmm, sounds good steptoe!!!

i will give it a try right now..

thanks a lot

[ying0yang]

this soft. capture only picture , and i need to capture the screensaver in video.

damn, it's so hard to find a way to capture the screensaver or convert it in video.

any others suggestions wil be appreciated