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Screencap vs Vidcap - What's the difference?

screencap | vidcap | see also |

Screencap is a see also of vidcap.


As nouns the difference between screencap and vidcap

is that screencap is a screenshot while vidcap is (informal) a still image consisting of a frame captured from film or television.

screencap

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A screenshot.
  • vidcap

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) A still image consisting of a frame captured from film or television.
  • * 2002 , Ewout Dorman, Crimson 1994-2002 Architectural Historians
  • The contamination shows in the blurry but garish photos of crowds of people moving through the garish urban interiors, looking more like vidcaps from MTV...
  • * 2006 , Henry Jenkins, Convergence culture: where old and new media collide
  • Pics from outside of Survivor , vidcaps , bios, descriptions (how friggin' TALL are these guys, exactly?).
  • * 2006 , Cecilia Tan, Lori Perkins, The MILF Anthology: Twenty-One Steamy Stories
  • Judging by the collection on her laptop, she had a taste for porn that rivaled mine, though her collection was mostly in the form of rather grainy vidcaps ...

    See also

    * screencap