print screen of movie
Greetings, I am wondering how I would do a print screen of a movie file(MPEG, asf, etc). I tried a conventional print screen with pasting it into paint and word. That didn't work. It showed up as a big black placeholder.
I am trying to include video clips on my site, and need a snapshot of the movie playing for a thumbnailed link to the movie file. Please advise
kl
Mark Hensler posted this at 06:59 — 8th February 2003.
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digital camera? hehe, I have no idea.
Renegade posted this at 08:47 — 8th February 2003.
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Trying to print screen movies are useless, they seem to be on another 'layer' or something.
Busy posted this at 09:02 — 8th February 2003.
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what about screen capture ?
drunkfood posted this at 09:43 — 8th February 2003.
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What is screen capture, please be more specific. I am only a novice at this.
Suzanne posted this at 17:12 — 8th February 2003.
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Depending on the format, many graphics applications will open a movie and allow you to have access to every single frame.
Additionally, most video cameras come with software that will do the same thing, for movie editing.
It is best done through these programs for quality and choice.
Mark Hensler posted this at 17:44 — 8th February 2003.
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Hey, here's a though. Have you tried opening the files in Microsoft Movie Maker? Maybe you could do a print screen from there...
Programs > Accessories > Entertainment > Microsoft Movie Maker
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Roo posted this at 21:49 — 8th February 2003.
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Hmmmmmmm...that's curious!
I just successfully did a print screen of both an .avi and a .mov and pasted them into Photoshop - Paint and Word without a problem.
Do you have a decent image editor? If not downloading the free one called 'Gimp' may be worth a shot.
How about checking download.com for shareware or freebie video editors?
Roo
kb posted this at 02:02 — 9th February 2003.
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yea, well Photoshop SHOULD let you open a movie and capture a frame...should...should...should...check though
tekjnke posted this at 19:23 — 10th February 2003.
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Greetings,
I am not sure if this is too late, but you should check out this great software package:
http://www.rendersoftware.com/products/camstudio/
I have used it to grab small clips of some of my larger home videos. Works great!
-Tekjnke
necrotic posted this at 23:46 — 11th February 2003.
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You can't open video files in Photoshop. That's for Premiere.
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anonymous1 posted this at 20:08 — 10th March 2003.
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Virtual Dub is an open source/GPL "premere" like video tool...It will do what your trying to do it for FREE!!!!! I highly recommend it....
anonymous1 posted this at 20:11 — 10th March 2003.
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It will do what your trying to do it for FREE!!!!!
ok should be "It will do what your trying to do and do it for FREE!!!!!"
DaveyBoy posted this at 20:20 — 10th March 2003.
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PowerDVD lets you capture frames of any movie files that it can open.
Jimmy Changa posted this at 20:25 — 10th March 2003.
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My PSP screen capture works fine for me.
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