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I need to capture a still image from a video and save it as a jpeg (or similar).
When I try to grab a screenshot, I can't modify the image later as it still thinks it's inside the video player and moves the screen around rather than shrinking the image (if that makes any sense).
Any easy way to do it?
oh, and I'm at work so probably can't download any programs!
If you pause the video can you get the frame that you want? How good quality does it have to be?
If 'not very', then I would resize the video window to the size image that you want, then pause the video at the appropriate moment & hit print screen (prtscrn) on the keyboard.
Open paint and paste the image in there, crop & save as a jpeg.
You can't normally Print Screen an MPEG layer as it's being decoded on top of your desktop not as part of it.
The Snapshot function under Video in [url= http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ ]VLC[/url] seems to be pretty good. Saves out PNGs at the display size of the image as default but you can probably change it.
Oh yeah....that has happened in the past now you mention it....you print screen, then paste & you get a black window where you expected you image.
Forgot about that.....
Bum.
Oh yeah....that has happened in the past now you mention it....you print screen, then paste & you get a black window where you expected you image.
yeah, that's what was happening.
Thanks tom - I'll see if I can download it at work
Windows Movie Maker can do this I think. Should be built-in so no download.
Perfect - thanks Graham