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PhiLho · Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:58 am Post subject:

Note I added GDIplus_FreeImage to my wrapper, it might be what is needed...
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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

AHKsimple · Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 14

How do you use this to capture images spontaneously (frames for screen video)? I tried combining the copy with the save w/ one hotkey and looped it but it doesn't work. I can hold the hotkey but it's pretty slow so the quality isn't so good....

holomind · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 300 Location: Munich, Germany

@ahksimple: I think You will not be able to record the video as it is rendered as hardware overlay or Direct Draw, which is not visible in the Desktop HDc until you change Video acceleration to "Software" in Windows Media Player, "Performance" . Capturing Video to Hard drive is too slow with This ahk-script, you might use FRAPS for this
http://www.fraps.com/
i don't think this will work good enough with AHK or GDl in this case

JSLover · Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:19 pm Post subject:

holomind · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 300 Location: Munich, Germany

@jslover : You will never get 100 fps with GDI you will need DirectX/Draw or opengl to get enough Speed unless you want 2fps?!

Fraps perhaps does not really much ,it simply copies the Gfxfrontbuffer to a file.similar to this.If you cant afford $37
http://www.codeproject.com/audio/avigenerator.asp

AHKsimple · Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 14

Okay. I used to have FRAPS and it was free....I dunno but all the ones I've tried have some numbers in the corner or does some funky stuff with the mouse cursor. I use CursorXP to use different cursors but anyway, I'm sorry if this is getting off topic but quickly, does anyone know any video editing software with an interface that allows you to layer videos, music, captions, etc., add pics and manipulate them in other ways (separate the video file into segments, adjust time length of titles/captions/pics, basic effects/transitions, etc.)? Sort of like Windows Movie Maker interface with the duration and everything, only as a Movie editor instead... The main features I'm looking for are being able to seperate the video files and music into segments, cutting video/music short, and basically anything to edit/arrange (deleting parts out, taking sample clips from the files, changing the order, etc.) that I can save into a standard video file format (avi, mpg, wmv....).

holomind · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 300 Location: Munich, Germany

the ones i know are "adobe Premiere" and "final cut", or "aftereffects" but they are not cheap

PhiLho · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:17 pm Post subject:

I saw good reviews (in French) of Pinnacle Studio Plus 10.0 (100€), Ulead VideoStudio 9 (80€), Magix Video Deluxe 2006 Plus (100€), Canopus Let’s Edit 2 (150€).
They are not cheap indeed... But I doubt a freeware would do this job.
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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

AHKsimple · Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 14

Thanks. I'm going to try and make something that takes screenshots of specific actions when they happen, naming the screenshot files according to the action and takes the screenshot name info to show a log in a msgbox when I press a hotkey. Boy, that's going to take a lot of work (btw, I'm completely new to scripting if it wasn't obvious enough already). I've got a ton of studying to do. lol. Is there any other resources besides the quick start tut and the help guide? I can't find much on the format of scripts used for parameters and such(all those brackets and tabbing...and spaces).

NiJo · Joined: 12 Nov 2005 Posts: 73

@Holomind:
Great Utility Very Happy

but...
I upgraded your script to use the latest GDIplusWrapper.ahk from Philho, modded some things and inserted a HotKey to take PrintScreen of the ActiveWindow (Just like Alt+PrintScreen). Yes, it uses the Wrapper now instead of your Helper, sorry Sad

The script got a lot easier to understand, thanks to Philho Wink

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Script: ScreenShooter

holomind · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 300 Location: Munich, Germany

@niho: for me the script looks very similar, but you added some for screenshot of region etc. the gdiwrapper is from philho and i only "use" it. there is much room to improve the script, its more a proof of concept, that you can make screenshots only with builtin tools like gdi or gdiplus. i am glad is somebody improves the script. in longterm using gdi (or graphics in general) with ahk will/should be improved. i also have some wrapper functions in the expose-clone script. because i dont like the dllcall-syntax and thus use wrappers.

sma · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 1

The code is function and the speed is ok.
Is it possible to add the curser pointer to the captured picture ?

Murp|e · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 246 Location: Norway

holomind and PhiLho,

Thanks! I've been wanting to make this little program for a year or so and this made it so much more tempting to start coding. I've been using QuickShot for some time which has the same functionality as this. I found QuickShot to be a little slow and I like the idea of hosting the screenshots on my own server. This takes a full screenshot of the screen and uploads it to your own FTP server. It's meant to be dead-simple and fast. I use it mostly in IM chats when the other person can't receive files. (I've only added the code-snippet between "#Z::" and "return", assides from that it's identical to holomind's script.)

Sean · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 1388

PhiLho · Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:23 am Post subject: Re: SitaShot