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9 Jul 2005 8:49 PM
Wojtek
Is there any program, which can save the single frame from the video file to
any image file (for example .jpg)? thnx for help.

Author
10 Jul 2005 1:07 AM
Gene E. Bloch
On 7/9/2005, Wojtek managed to type:
> Is there any program, which can save the single frame from the video file to
> any image file (for example .jpg)? thnx for help.

Many, if not most, video file playing programs have a still image
capture button, which will do what you want.

They usually capture it onto the clipboard, so next you would open a
program like IrfanView (free and excellent), open a new file, paste the
image, and save it the way your want.

Good luck,
Gino

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Author
12 Jul 2005 12:00 PM
AJH
Gene E. Bloch wrote:
> Many, if not most, video file playing programs have a still image
> capture button, which will do what you want.
As long as you can pause the playback (I suspect all players) you can
just capture the screen with "Print Screen" key and paste into a photo
editor (e.g. MS Photo Editor, IrfanView...), then crop and save as JPG.
Messy but functional.
Pinnacle Studio 9 is my commercial software of choice, which makes it
easy.
Alan
Author
12 Jul 2005 4:30 PM
Gene E. Bloch
On 7/12/2005, AJH managed to type:
>
> Gene E. Bloch wrote:
>> Many, if not most, video file playing programs have a still image
>> capture button, which will do what you want.
> As long as you can pause the playback (I suspect all players) you can
> just capture the screen with "Print Screen" key and paste into a photo
> editor (e.g. MS Photo Editor, IrfanView...), then crop and save as JPG.
> Messy but functional.
> Pinnacle Studio 9 is my commercial software of choice, which makes it
> easy.
> Alan

And when you find that, as on my computer, print screen doesn't work,
look for the capture button in your player...

WinDVD has such a button. It captures clips into thumbnails, which you
can then save directly to a file. Pause isn't required, but it helps
you capture the exact right frame.

I can't find a capture button in Windows Media Player, however.

Gino

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Author
14 Jul 2005 8:44 AM
Laurence Payne
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:30:21 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
<spamfree@nobody.invalid> wrote:

>And when you find that, as on my computer, print screen doesn't work,
>look for the capture button in your player...

That's unusual.   Do you have a special Windows installation that
disables the function?   It can probably be turned on again.
Author
14 Jul 2005 9:38 AM
Cail Young
On 14/7/05 6:44 PM, "Laurence Payne" <lpayne1NOSPAM@dsl.pipexSPAMTRAP.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:30:21 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
> <spamfree@nobody.invalid> wrote:
>
>> And when you find that, as on my computer, print screen doesn't work,
>> look for the capture button in your player...
>
> That's unusual.   Do you have a special Windows installation that
> disables the function?   It can probably be turned on again.

Most DVD software puts video directly on the overlay layer, which the
Windows printscreen function can't capture.
Author
14 Jul 2005 5:42 PM
Gene E. Bloch
On 7/14/2005, Laurence Payne managed to type:
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:30:21 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
> <spamfree@nobody.invalid> wrote:
>
>> And when you find that, as on my computer, print screen doesn't work,
>> look for the capture button in your player...
>
> That's unusual.   Do you have a special Windows installation that
> disables the function?   It can probably be turned on again.

I don't think it's unusual. The question comes up over and over again
on the video NGs, and the answer is always to use the Capture or
Snapshot button in your player.

Well, actually there's a second answer that comes up, namely to disable
video acceleration so that the movie will appear in the video card's
frame buffer, instead of being processed on the card (or something like
that - I don't quite understand it!). If I do that, my two players (WMP
and WinDVD) won't play the video.

Gino

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