How to capture video from the screen

[roomby]

I'm trying to make a screen grab of a video as it plays. However, when I do this and paste the grab into Paint Shop Pro, the video moves around in the frame and then disappears when the file is saved. Does anyone know how I can capture a still image from a video? Help urgently needed, thanks.

[Chillum]

I don't have PSP on this machine, but just did a print screen an paste into Photoshop without a problem. I'd have thought PSP would have been fine with this also. I've also just tried it in Microsoft Paint, and it works there too.

If it continues to fail, you could go to Adobe website and download Premiere. This will give you a free 30 trail of movie editing software. Load up your movie, drag it into the timeline. Scrub along until you get the frame that you want, then go to File>Export Timeline>Frame.

[roomby]

I'm still having problems. I don't have Photoshop, so I can't try it there, but Paint shows the same result as PSP,i.e. the video is there in the captured image, but when I move the image around, the video stays in the same place. It disappears when the file is saved. There is a problem with capturing a frame in a movie editor (i've tried with windows movie maker) as the files on the DVD don't show up as video files. any ideas anyone?

[stevie21]

The only way that I've found of getting round this (and I didn't spend too much time trying as my 2nd attempt was successful) was to use a program called TmpgEnc to load the video and then look at a Preview of it. You can take a screen capture of this.

I remember having exactly the same problem that you had in capturing a still.

Actually, another way that I remember using is to use the software which was bundled with my DVD drive (PowerDVD) - this came with the facility to take a screen capture of whatever that piece of software was playing.

Best of luck..

[roomby]

thanks for your help guys. In the end, I discovered that Power DVD, my DVD playing software had the facility to capture a still. Duh! So simple when you know how... All it takes then is to click the icon and paste the image into a graphics program.