Forum:SH Archive/Star Wars Blu-Ray screenshots

The Star Wars Blu-Rays are out now worldwide, and I just wanted to say a few things about taking screenshots from them:
 * 1) All screenshots should be posted at native resolution. This is the best the Saga has ever looked, and there should be no need to scale the frames down. All full-scene uploads should be 1920x816 pixels, give or take a few pixels for border adjustments.
 * 2) Third-party sources on uploads must be identified. If you got a screenshot from a source such as a digital format of a magazine, say so. Please note that it will probably be deleted anyway.
 * 3) If it didn't come directly from the disc in your own computer, it'd probably no better than what we already have. If you downloaded the Saga from some torrent or something, and each individual film file is less than 40 gigabytes or so, then the quality has been reduced and you shouldn't bother uploading from it.

Some tools to help with properly extracting frames:


 * AnyDVD HD has already been updated to decrypt the Saga Blu-Rays. This will remove the protection that keeps you from opening the video files in players with good screenshot capabilities.
 * K-Lite Codec Pack includes all the codecs you will need to view the files outside a dedicated Blu-Ray player program like PowerDVD (which does NOT have a good screenshot function) and includes Media Player Classic.
 * Media Player Classic Home Cinema (included in K-Lite Codec Pack above) is a good player with a decent screenshot function but may require additional support software, which is why the codec pack is a good idea.
 * The KMPlayer is what I use, because it has better frame stepping control and frame series extraction than other players I've tried.

When you upload a new version of a file, wait about five minutes before you decide the cache isn't updating. At that point, tack "?action=purge" at the end of the file description page. If it still shows the old version, tag it with WISS. Don't bother tagging a file with Imr unless you see the old version hang around for more than a day or so. I'll be keeping tabs on the upload log.

If you decide to upload an entirely new file, nobody will blame you. Just be sure to replace the links everywhere the old file is used, including user pages, and tag the old file with.

There are about 2,000 screenshots to be replaced now, and I can't do it alone, but it needs to be done right. Any questions about this should be asked here. -- Darth Culator  (Talk) 17:42, September 16, 2011 (UTC)