Print Screen

anyone know of a way to print screen so you can keep a picture of a movie clip. When I use print screen, I pause the video, i print the screen, but then afer i paste the screen it leaves the video picture behind.

anyone know of a way to do this or has any programs to do this?

cheers

geordie

 

 
 
How are you doing it exactly?

I am sure that it used to happen to me, but for some reason, the video is visible now and I can't duplicate your problem. Possibly (though not probably, I think) because of SP1 having been installed.

I tried both Windows Media Player and the old Media Player 6.4 that is included with XP and both times the video was visible in the printed screen (pasted to Wordpad).

I also tried Capture from www.analogX.com and that also showed the video.

PS. I'm not sure if I've tried this since changing vid cards---that could be involved, too.

 

This is getting stranger by the minute. I saw the video in the screen capture, but as soon as I minimize or close the media player, the picture of the video disappers from the saved screen capture bmp file. I don't understand it. If I open the media player again, pause it on a video, and then open the bmp, there it is in the screen capture again. And this is the strangest part---if I use a different video, the bmp shows the NEW video and not the one I captured when I made the bmp to begin with! The bmp changes each time I change the video, even if saved on a floppy!

This undoubtedly has something to do with the graphics overlay, but it sure is mysterious.

 

Windows Media player used hardware acceleration or Direct X to play back videos.

There are 2 ways to capture the screenshot you need:

1) Disable the hardware acceleratoin and told the player not to use DirectDraw (a component of Direct X). You may check it out in the video player's option. You will then be able to cap screenshots using [print-scn], but the movie play back speed will be tonned down *greatly*.

2) Keep your player intact, instead use a capturing software which can cap DirectX and video screen, say, Hypersnap, which is the best (if not only) capturing shareware I have been using for a few years to capture video and game screenshots.

3) Some video player (such as PowerDVD) have screen capture function, use these player instead.

 

Disabling the hardware acceleration alone is all I have to do to capture video still shots to the Clipboard.

Start > Control Panel > Display > Settings > Advanced > Troubleshooting > and move the bar to the "None" position and Ok out.

Alternately, right click the open Desktop > Properties > Settings > Advanced...like before.

You can use Windows Clipboard to do the "Print Screen" but I prefer something a little better. I use PrintKey2000 and it allows me to do several captures rapidly and automatically places them in a storage file I have pre-designated. It's good stuff.

Best regards to all.

 

If you try to capture a video frame you will never get the frame flattened into the device so you can save or edit it.
The BEST program to do this is Virtual Dub. You can capture any frame from any format that V.Dub will open.
You can use the 'print screen' key to capture the frame in the view panel of V.dub, or use it's own capture program. VIDEO> >COPY SOURCE TO CLIPBOARD.
Using the print screen key also sends the frame to window's clipboard and from there it can be pasted to MSPAINT, WORD, PHOTOSHOP or any other image program.
note:
print screen will capture the entire screen including the Virtual Dub window with the video frame displayed. You can then edit the resulting .bmp to cut just the frame image from the rest of the screen shot.