FAQ
Q: How do you make/take these screencaps?
A: We both use different DVD viewing programs (banshee uses WinDVD, and artphilia uses PowerDVD & VideoLAN). These programs all have a built in screencap feature. We slowly go through an entire episode or movie, frame by frame, and press the "Capture Frame" button when we find a nice shot.
Q: Why don't you have more images? Some people have over 1,000 pictures for episodes and you only have 500-600. Why?
A: banshee: Most of those people use an automatic capping feature - they basically press a few buttons and an hour or so later they have 1,000 screencaps waiting for them to go through. I'm very much a hands-on person, and I like going through my images individually to try and get the best shot. What use is 1,000 images if 200 of them are fuzzy motion shots, and another 200 look almost identical to the ones before them?
It really comes down to the person taking the screencaps. My personal opinion in most of the things that I do is that hand-made is more reliable, and tends to have a higher quality. I code my websites by hand (except for certain reliable scripts), and I spend 2 - 3 hours per episode taking screencaps because I want to maintain a high level of quality throughout my site.
Q: What script do you use to show your screencaps?
A: We use a great script written by the lovely Julie called Captivate. It's been personalised slighty (mainly cosmetic changes to allow pop-ups and prettier menus for sub-sites), but we've found that it suits our tastes a lot better than the more overused scripts such as Coppermine
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