As I'm sure many of you have tried, you've played a video on your computer and liked one particular still-frame and wanted to capture it using Print Screen, etc. Windows Media Player doesn't work with this as it overlays the image on top of the screen. I tried Quicktime but it won't even load a few of the MPEGs in question without stalling or whatever. Are there other players that allow a basic screenshot to be taken, or are there simple video tools that one can download to accomplish this (and be able to load up any MPEG that Media Player can open)?

Thanks for any advice! I've done a lot of searching on Google and keep running into roadblocks, so to speak.

 

Hey Steve. I know what you're talking about with the Media Player not allowing screengrabs. The only way I've found is to use a video editor like Adobe Premiere. After you put the video into your timeline, you can export frames as .bmps. I don't know of a way to grab stills of streaming media that you can't save to your hard drive, though.

 

I can do it with Windows Media.. Just pause the video and do a Alt+PrntScreen, this will only capture the active window (which is Windows Media), then use Paint, Photo Editor, etc. to crop it. I've done this before for Music Videos..this is all I have used.

hope if helps out.

thanks

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by QT_S2K
[B]I can do it with Windows Media.. Just pause the video and do a Alt+PrntScreen, this will only capture the active window (which is Windows Media), then use Paint, Photo Editor, etc.

 

On second thought, if you are indeed able to do this, can I ask what version of Windows Media player are you using? Version 6.4 or the new and bulky 7.0+?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by QT_S2K
[B]I can do it with Windows Media.. Just pause the video and do a Alt+PrntScreen, this will only capture the active window (which is Windows Media), then use Paint, Photo Editor, etc.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by SteveUCI
[B]On second thought, if you are indeed able to do this, can I ask what version of Windows Media player are you using?

 

Steve,
I'm told Power DVD has a capture frame button on its player. You may wanna give this a try ?

simon

 

and try this
http://www.bsplayer.org/html/about.html

simon

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by sj2000
[B]and try this