This a stupid question that I've always been too timid to ask. What is a video file and how do you get it? For ex. I only watch episodes on Netflix, so am assuming that you can't capture from that source. How then do you download movies or episodes to screencap? Do you have to purchase the source material from iTunes and do it that way?
Thanks so much for posting this BTW because I really want to be able to do my own screen caps.
You could capture images from Netflix, but it's tedious, as you'd have to pause the screen and hit your PrtSc button, then paste the image into a program like Paint and save it, but there's no way to use VLC Player to capture the images from Netflix.
If you want to use VLC Player, you can actually screencap from a DVD after you pop it into your computer - it should work exactly the same as using a video file with this tutorial. I'm not sure if it would work with an itunes video file, but I think the file extension on an itunes video is .mp4, and I'm pretty VLC supports that, so it should work!
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Thanks so much for posting this BTW because I really want to be able to do my own screen caps.
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If you want to use VLC Player, you can actually screencap from a DVD after you pop it into your computer - it should work exactly the same as using a video file with this tutorial. I'm not sure if it would work with an itunes video file, but I think the file extension on an itunes video is .mp4, and I'm pretty VLC supports that, so it should work!
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