hosting and posting screencaps
This is a simple guide about how to host and post screecaps (preview) accompanying videos.
You need this software
first part: screen-capping with imagegrabber II
there are two ways to create screencaps - individual pics and a “contact-sheet”.
download imagegrabber (~1MB), install and start the program
- individual caps (pro: original screen-size of the vid):
load the vid you want to post
klick on the monitor-button and put the number of pics you want to create in the respective form
wait until imagegrabber is finished with capping and klick on “file”->”save multiple” - files will be saved in the folder you choose.
done
- contact-sheet (pro: kind of a “scap-book”, less single-pics to be hosted)
move the mouse over the “cap-bar”, right-klick->”delete all” - that clears the caps generated above.
again klick on the “monitor”-button and put the ammount of caps you want to have
wait until imagegrabber is finished with capping and klick on “file”->”save file”
you can “play” with some settings (number of rows, background-colors etc.), i recommend to fill out the “details” with file-name, -size, -format, -resolution and vid-length
give the “contact-sheet” a matching name considering the vid-name.
done.
second part: hosting the caps on imagevenue
go to www.imagevenue.com, klick on “up to 10 pics”, if you need to, choose the pics you want to upload , don´t forget to tag them as “not safe for work” and klick on “send files”.
after a short while you´ll get the following - the thumbnails of the uploaded pics and a bunch of codes in different forms. copy those where it´s said “forum or message board” (hint: always use the codes/links where the >[URL<-part is written in in capitals)
i suggest to paste these links in a .txt-file, you need them later on, too bad if due to an uncareful closing of a window you´ll have to re-up the pics.
done