Handpicked Software

I just bought The Speed of Light, a DVD on Nikon’s Creative Lighting System with Joe McNally (whose portfolio is definitely worth a look). I’m not convinced the video is worth the thirty bucks, but it includes a number of lighting diagrams that I wanted to capture and view separately. Unfortunately, capturing a frame from a DVD is not easy. Unless you have Capture Me.

Capture Me is a basic utility for capturing screen shots. Capture Me floats a resizable window on your desktop. Move the capture window over the area of your screen you want to capture (say, the DVD Player window), resize it, and click anywhere inside the capture window. Done. You can adjust the transparency of the capture window to make selection easier. You can choose to save images manually, or set a preference to save them automatically as JPG or BMP files.

Bottom Line: If you need to grab a frame from a DVD, Capture Me is the perfect solution.
From: Chimoosoft
Price: Free
Platform: Macintosh