As the heading says, I have some scenes I'd like to harvest and submit to this site, either to the gallery that comes with the account I've now got, or to the public movie/TV one. The scenes in question are from Leprechaun 3, when the devious little Leprechaun finds that a casino dealer has used one of his precious coins to wish for bigger brests. This particular leprechaun is a ruthless little beast who kills anyone who touches his gold, but in this movie he likes to be creative his kills, which is why the scenes I'd like to submit to the site would likely be appropriate here - The leprechaun blows the casino up like a balloon until she explodes. The actual explosion likely wouln't be of much interest to anyone but I'd like to submit the scenes leading to it. The dealer's breasts, lips, and buttocks all rapidly become inproportionately large, starting with the breasts, then lips, and ending with the buttocks. Problem is I don't know how to harvest the scenes, I'm having trouble figuring what kind of file the video aside from a video clip (which is all windows XP home edition is letting me see for some odd reason,) and I don't which or what program or programs to use. A little would appreciated.
Harvesting Scenes From Video Files
Yeah VLC is my player of choice too, though I haven't updated in a long while now. As for the extension, as I said earlier I'm not sure. I had a virus problem last week so I had to reinstall windows XP on my computer which basically vaped my C drive, though everything on my D drive, the 'extra,' drive is still intact, and some of the behaviours I'm noticing are different than they were before, though I was using professional before and am back to using home edition now. Everytime I try to bring up the extension, all I get on the file is that it is a video file (right click and properties & holding the mouse over the file icon.) I'm not sure of any other methods to check the extension then the ones I've been using. Don't know why that's been so hard. Thanks.
If the file you have is indeed video and a format VLC understands, then VLC should open and play it regardless of the extension. (I don't use Windows much, so I may be over-rating its abilities.) Assuming VLC can play it, Window > Information will tell you what codec is used.
Text editors will open almost any file, and many files have headers identifying the file type, if you want to try that.
Now about this "harvesting" -- do you mean screen captures? Single frames? If you can get the clip to play, pulling a screen cap is very easy. If you're thinking of editing the file and recompressing it into a new movie file, you should reconsider. Always work with the cleanest video you can get, such as the commercially released DVD. Compressing video for the Web introduces noise of various kinds. When recompressing that clip, known as generation loss, the new compressor treats the noise as picture information, which drives up the data rate *and* the noise level, no matter how high you set the new data rate.
(Even clips pulled from DVD will be a bit noisier than professionally made clips, like movie trailers, because DVD compression has its own inherent noise. Pros are working from pro video formats, but we don't expect you to get a D1 copy of LEPRECHAUN.)
After a bit of fiddling around and updating my copy og vln from 8.4a to 8.6c, I've discovered the snapshot ability of VideoLan. Thanks to everybody who steered me in the right direction. I was sure I'd have to get a new program to get these screen captures; I had no idea that a program that I already had could do it for me without much effort. If the shots I've taken don't quite illustrate what was happening well enough (I know I wasn't quite satisfied with them,) then please tell me and I 'll try harvesting some more, otherwise I'm just putting what I've got right now, though I may easily change my mind later. Thanks again.
they have that scene in quite high quality on one of hte vaporizedordisintegrated yahoo groups.
Try VLC as a playback program -- it's a free video player (and an exceptionally good one) available from http://www.videolan.com and you don't need to download a ton of codecs; it sort of has everything built in. It's a good Swiss Army Video Player as a result, capable of playing most if not all Windows video formats.
I have the scene in question as a QuickTime file, but it's very small, so I'm betting your rip is different than mine. What is the file extension?
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