urbandruid

I forgot what a bitch screencaps are. No, really. I have two methods, and both of them are tedious. Method one requires having the stuff on a DVD. It goes in the CD-DVD drive on my laptop, and with a couple keystrokes I can screecap anything. The problem? It doesn't have all the options the DVD player does as far as speed and such. The software has a "step" button, but it's right next to the "stop" button, and three guesses what I keep hitting accidentally?

And then when I hit "start" again, it starts the disc from "Shadow Dancing", so I have to kick it back to the menu, hit "Z'ha'dum"...

This method generates better screencaps. And the occasional really blurry in-motion ones, that I just shrug over and toss, because I've learned I can't fix them.

Method two is a real pain in the ass. It involves the television set and my digital camera. Normally I only use it for stuff I only have on tape, but for some stupid reason today I decided I'd try it with the Babylon 5 DVDs. I thought the semi-bad quality of the captures from the tapes was just the tapes. Turns out it's the whole camera-TV thing. Oh well.

What I'm really not looking forward to, though, is when I have to go back and screencap the two-hour seaQuest premere, which I have on a slowly dying VHS tape from the 1990's. It'll take forever, and I'll only get maybe a handful of decent caps out of it. They won't be the ones I really want, either. *sigh* Oh well. Maybe I won't do it at all. I was going to take the new caps so I could redo Command Decision, but now I'm wondering if I should bother. Nobody else cares about my silly little pet project; why should I?

Anyway. Back to sorting through .bmp files from the DVD captures, I guess. *yawn*

I need a hobby. I need a life.

I need to stop feeling so sorry for myself because no one is reading my lame Alias fic. (But if you guys are bored?