Program(s): VLC Player (not required), PhotoShop CS4
Involves: Screen-capping and making and editing animated gifs
Translatable: Only from PS CS3 - PS CS5 i'm pretty sure.
Steps: 5-6. All steps are lengthy and discussed in detail. I have a more detailed list of what the tutorial will cover underneath.
Difficulty: (Hopefully) Easy to Medium. As long as you have the patience to read. I wrote this for beginners so I don't skimp on the detail.

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Program(s)+version: UnRar, HJSplit, VLC Player, Automator, NameMangler, EasyBatch, ViewIt
Involves: Learning about HD files' image quality and size, how to cap, batch conversion and renaming, sorting, uploading your caps to a server and adding those caps using Coppermine for sharing in a gallery as well as uploading zip files for sharing.
Translatable: No, Mac only.
Steps: A lot.
Difficulty: Moderate

There always seems to be fairly well done tutorials for various Windows programs and how to cap out there over the years, but when I switched over to Mac over a year ago it took me a while to find all the programs I use now because there was no guide like this to simply follow. I had to learn through trial and error and searching and searching for the program I wanted for each task. There was no step by step how-to. Now that I have a set method, I figured it would only seem reasonable to share.
So for anyone interested in switching to Mac, new to Macs, or for the occasional dual Mac-PC user, this is THE guide to all things screencapping. I'll try not to get too technical, I want this to be pretty easy to comprehend.

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Please do let me know if you find anything confusing, or if you have more questions or problems and hopefully I can answer them!

Program: VLC (version 0.9.9--the newest version) + a bit of Windows Media Player (another similar program can be substituted)
Involves: automatic screencapping and setting preferences on a screencapping program
Translatable: No, it's just for VLC
Steps: 16-21 (depending on whether or not you choose to use Windows Media Player to help you at a specific part of the tutorial)
Difficulty: Easy to Moderate

Because THIS TUTORIAL got so much response and VLC has released many new versions of VLC since I made that tutorial, I decided to download the newest version of VLC and do a new tutorial for everyone who has the newest version of VLC. This morning again we will go literally step-by-step as I teach you how to automatically screencap with VLC. (i.e., the computer does it for you.)

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me; I'll try my best to answer them. (Or direct you to a place where you can find answers.)

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Program(s): KMPlayer, Photoshop 7, ImageReady 7
Involves: Screen-capping and animation
Translatable: I'm not sure but let me know if it is.
Steps: 10 but it also includes a mini screen-capping tutorial
Difficulty: Easy to Medium



We're going to be making the following icon:




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