Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Using Virtual Dub for Taking Caps

1. Open the Video in VirtualDub. Make sure u have VDUB MPEG2.




2. See the below pic. You can see the bar... u can capture the images frame by frame here. But wait... we can use VDub features to improve the quality, which we will see in next step.



3. GO to Video > Filter > Select Deinterlace Filter > select Blend Fields together [best] option.



4. Again goto Video > Filter > select smoother > keep value as 10 or as per ur preference ;).



5. You can also crop unnecessary areas in the frame with the "cropping" option shown in the below pic.



6. If u wish to watermark ur caps / video, then there is a logo option in the filters list.



7. Now u r done with settings for making caps... u can copy the output source to clipboard and save with either paint or using photoshop ;).



Improving quality of caps in Photoshop (CS2) :

If you have taken snapshot from TV Tuner then u can directly open that in photoshop or if u r using VDUB then copy the output source clipboard and paste in photoshop.

1. Open image in photoshop. Select Filter > Noise > Dust & Scratches > Input 2 to both Radius & Threshold then press OK.

2. Again Select Filter > Noise > Reduce Noise > Enable Preview > Select Basic > Settings-Default > Strength-5 > Preserve Details-11, Reduce Color Noise-74, Sharpen Details-21. Dont forgtet to Enable Remove JPEG Artifact ;). Press OK.


All the Process is complete now.

You can alter the values according to your satisfaction.

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