PowerDVD... you're gorgeous.

[The Ampersand]

I'd also recommend Jasc's Animation Shop 3 and Paint Shop Pro 7. You can download a shareware version of it from their website. It's not as powerful as Photoshop, but it's much easier to use, and it's free.

[station82o]

BTW - in PowerDVD - how EXACTLY do you capture the screens? Like what do you press or something?

[Metal_Slug]

The little camera icon... if you can't see it, just scan your mouse pointer over the buttons... it'll say "Capture" over one of them...

Enjoy.

[station82o]

damn..i don't see it anywhere man...is it on the little console display when you go into window mode? Please help! Is there some kinda shortcut key i can use?

[Josh]

Now all I need is a DVD drive on my computer and I am set. Wait... first I need a computer.

CRAP!

[piku]

Couldn't you have just used print screen?

[Metal_Slug]

piku- Nope, doesn't work.

station- The second icon.. it looks like a camera.

[Chux]

Originally posted by stormy
so anyone want to tell me why i've had Power DVD over a year and the screen capture button is greyed out 95% of the time?

I just got PowerDVD, and I'm wondering the SAME thing.

EDIT: Nevermind, video accelleration has to be off for it to work.

[mrbogus]

The capture button is probably greyed out because you have hardware acceleration on. You need to go into the configuration and turn it off. You can only capture screens in software playback mode.

You don't even need hardware acceleration on if you have a decent computer, so leaving it off won't ruin image quality. At least that I've noticed.

Best part about PowerDVD to me is the shuttle FF/Reverse using the scroll wheel. 32x FF is very nice.