taking screencaps of videos

[youdontknow]

Hey all

i have a video that i want to take a screen capture of, my pressing 'print screen' then pasting it into word doesn't seem to work... comes out with a black screen where the image should be. Anyone know of an easier way to do it??


thanks for any help you can give

 

[MikeS72]

Copy to Paint and then to IrfanView to convert to jpg and re-size if necessary.

 

[youdontknow]

Copy to Paint and then to IrfanView to convert to jpg and re-size if necessary.

hey, whats irfanview?

thanks

 

[provenlogic]

You won't be able to use printscreen to take a screenshot of a video becasue of the way video is rendered in windows.

You have to use a program's built in screenshot capability or you're going to get bupkiss . You need to use a player (such as VLC player) that has screenshot capability. Google VLC player, it's free.

 

[SantaCBear]

In Windows I use CyberLink PowerDVD.

See:

And irfanview is a MUST have app !

 

[provenlogic]

Oy... amateurs...

 

[nsguy2]

open windows media player (I have 11), in the tools menu, click options, click the performance tab, click advanced and UNCHECK use overlays.

I then paste the screen cap into paint.