Capture stills from trailers

[bazzah]

This may be obvious to some, but it is an easy way of grabbing several stills for movies, when they are hard to come by. I am sure there are several different techniques people use, but this is how I do it.

Firstly go to a good quality website such as www.hd-trailers.net

Find your movie and play the highest quality trailer available

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Play your movie in full screen. Using your PRINT SCREEN key on your keyboard, capture your first screen. Open Photoshop and create a new window (CTRL/CMD N). Select the Clipboard size in the New Document window

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Press (CTRL/CMD V) to paste your screen grab into your Photoshop document. Keep grabbing screens using PRINT SCREEN and CTRL/CMD V until you have as many screen grabs as you need. Once you have them all, you will need to crop the images ©.

With your Crop Tool © selected, draw a box around one of the stills. Press ENTER to crop all of your layers.

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Highlight your Background layer, and press Delete.

You should now have several layers containing all your screen grabs. So let's save them as jpg files.

Go to File -> Export -> Layers To Files...

Select Browse, and set the directory you want to save them to. Change file type to JPEG. Set quality to 10.

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Click Run, and Photoshop will save each layer as a jpg file, in your selected directory.

[Speedz0r]

Not sure if I understand what your saying correctly? You open up the trailer and take several screencaps (of the same image but different places each time) so you end up with a much larger screen capture? Seeing that you're using clipboard 6160x1440? If it's just normal screen captures of a trailer, I'd recommend downloading them and use AvsPmod (with this program you can go through the video frame by frame) to select the exact image you want.

[bazzah]

No. That is just my clipboard size you are looking at. Yours will be different. You just keep copying and pasting until you have several layers (each screen grab) built up

[sauron]

Nice tutorial Baz!

What size monitor do you have for your clipboard to be so large? I’m using an old 27” monitor and my clipboard is a lot smaller, something like 1920 x 1080 I think.

[bazzah]

I have 3 monitors. Two old Samsung 22 inch's, and a low end Lenovo Q27q-10 27 Inch QHD Monitor.

[Speedz0r]

I see. I'm also on a 27" monitor sauron

[sauron]

QUOTE (Bazzah @ Nov 17 2021, 07:06 PM) I have 3 monitors. Two old Samsung 22 inch's, and a low end Lenovo Q27q-10 27 Inch QHD Monitor.

Ah so I’m guessing it’s the QHD screen that gets the 6160x1440?

[bazzah]

QUOTE (sauron @ Nov 17 2021, 08:24 PM) Ah so I’m guessing it’s the QHD screen that gets the 6160x1440?

Yes, it's 4k It's great for Photoshop

[sauron]

QUOTE (Bazzah @ Nov 17 2021, 07:34 PM) Yes, it's 4k It's great for Photoshop

I’m jealous lol… I really do need to get with the times and get a better monitor

[bazzah]

It is worth it. I was very impressed with my upgrade from a 15 year old monitor