frame captures?

[kent_eh]

Here's a tech question for those of you who are posting stills from the video clips (thanks for that, by the way).

What software are you using to grab the stills.
When I try to grab a screenshot all I get is the border and controls of my player, and an empty black box where the video should be.
Like this:

http://members.shaw.ca/pileofstuff/screenshot.jpg

Help.

[Alex]

Are you using Windows XP? If so, you can use Windows Movie Maker. It comes bundled with XP for free.

Start the program and choose "Import video" from the menu on the left. Click on the thumbnail for the video you imported. Now you can play it using the controls on the right. Pause playback on the frame you want to capture then click the icon that looks like a camera that says "Take picture" when the mouse is over it. That opens the standard Windows "Save As" dialog box where you can name the vidcap and choose where to save it on your hard drive.

That's how I do it. Maybe some other users will chime in if they use other software.

I hope this helps.

[kent_eh]

Originally Posted by Alex

Are you using Windows XP? If so, you can use Windows Movie Maker. It comes bundled with XP for free.

Start the program and choose "Import video" from the menu on the left. Click on the thumbnail for the video you imported. Now you can play it using the controls on the right. Pause playback on the frame you want to capture then click the icon that looks like a camera that says "Take picture" when the mouse is over it. That opens the standard Windows "Save As" dialog box where you can name the vidcap and choose where to save it on your hard drive.

That's how I do it. Maybe some other users will chime in if they use other software.

I hope this helps.

Hmmm... Mine has a video camera icon, but it looks like it probably would do the capture, if my Logitec webcam driver wasn't interfering (the damn thing never worked anyway, and I thought I deleted it. Apparently there is still part of it hanging around, clogging up the works.)

[kent_eh]

I just found a link to bsplayer in the video forum.
I downloaded it, and it seems to make captures easy.

Thanks for your help.

[sreddy100]

Originally Posted by kent_eh

I just found a link to bsplayer in the video forum.
I downloaded it, and it seems to make captures easy.

Thanks for your help.

I asked a similar question in a forum. Perhaps this is a better place:
Say you have en interesting movie, but the begginning and the end is quite boring, and you want to delete the unimportant stuff, what program is then suitable?

I have been using Ahed Nero vision, but when exporting the clips get way too big (bigger than original )


Thx for an excellent forum. This really was needed, and nice to see that we are a lot of people who just love these kind of clips.

[Alex]

If you are using Windows XP you can use Windows Movie Maker for free.

[sreddy100]

Originally Posted by Alex

If you are using Windows XP you can use Windows Movie Maker for free.

Thanks, but I am a dedicated windows 2000 user

(just tried to see if WMM could work with win2k but no.)

[Alex]

sreddy100,

You might want to look at VirtualDub. It will definitely work on Windows2000. It's free and it will do what you want plus a whole lot more.

http://www.virtualdub.com/

Good luck.

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