Taking Screen Shots

[El Pirata]

I used to be able to take screen shots from videos on my computer however over the past few months I have not been allowed to take them. What happens is I take the screen shot then open MS paint and hit control V and the image I took gets pasted into the program. This would be fine and dandy if it worked however it does not save the image in the graphics program, or at least not the image that was in the player. All of the stuff surrounding the player is able to be saved but not the actual image from the player. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[wdavidhicks]

What were you using to capture the shots?

Windows Media Player appears to support captures from DVD but nothing else.

 

[El Pirata]

Media player and Quick time. It will not take screen shots of either.

 

[shorty]

have u got a dual dispaly card

 

[lykan]

do a look/search for hypersnap Sx it captures everything.

edit..hypersnap DX

 

[El Pirata]

Originally posted by shorty
have u got a dual dispaly card

No clue.

Originally posted by lykan
do a look/search for hypersnap Sx it captures everything.

edit..hypersnap DX

Spyware? I dislike using free programs for spyware reasons.

 

[shorty]

what did u used to use to capture

 

[wdavidhicks]

 

[newnitrofan]

Didn't error hook you up with Pinnacle 8?? Thought he said he did that for ya. Newayz you can use that to grap screenshots from vids and stuff.

 

[shorty]

Originally posted by wdavidhicks

LMAO

 

[SpOrK01]

NOw thats Ghetto

 

[El Pirata]

Originally posted by wdavidhicks

Back off, I might try that!

Originally posted by newnitrofan
Didn't error hook you up with Pinnacle 8?? Thought he said he did that for ya. Newayz you can use that to grap screenshots from vids and stuff.

Yes he did however the screen for editing is tiny and I am trying to take large shots for desktops.

 

[newnitrofan]

Ummm you can grab the screenshots from there than use another program to re size ya know!! That's what I have to do. Plus I don't trust the quality from pinnacle anyways.

 

[El Pirata]

Yeah but the clarity suffers as a result.

 

[wdavidhicks]

It's kinda hokey with Pinnacle. Screenshots have to be grabbed from an input stream or from a clip after it's been placed in the movie.

If you drag a movie clip from the album into the movie, then double-click the clip (in the movie, not the album) you'll get the clip properties box. In that properties box is a frame grabber tool. Move the slider or use the arrows in the preview window to get exactly the frame you want captured.

 

[El Pirata]

Ok, I'll try that but can you use a little more mookish language. I was thinking only of the print screen not trying it in pinnacle because the image will be too small and low clarity for me.

This is what I get for a screen shot if the movie is not playing. In the slightly lighter area in the center I get the movie playing or paused, if the movie is paused, while I am in paint. It does the exact same thing regardless of whether I am viewing quick time or media player.

 

[wdavidhicks]

I had tried the print screen method too and got the same thing.

This is a "print screen" capture of Pinnacle where you do the screen grabs. When I did the "print screen" there was an image where you see black.

The screen grab gets a full-rez capture, though.

 

[El Pirata]

Ok, can we get off the pinnacle program.

I'll clarify a little more. I used to be able to hit "print screen" while a movie was playing or paused in media player then open ms paint and hit "control v" and the image from the movies was now in paint as an image. However now when I try this I get the movie still playing in the image in paint. If I try to save it in paint I get an image just like the one in post #16.

I'd like to be able to grab screen shots from media player or quick time if I feel like it but this is not longer possible. Can anyone help me with this?

C'mon computer super geeks, what happened?

 

[Çh®i§tiªñ]

Hey El - everyone is trying to tell you that you need to download something else to make it work!!!

Dont worry man, its all good, you just need something else to pull the snap from the vids.

I have downloaded apps to record vids that are playing back, but again, had to dl an app.

 

[lykan]

Well did you install any new codecs?

Windows has No problem capturing screens from regular display. when the card kicks in directX, it uses the hardware acceleration on your video card.

When the card is using it's hardware to make "3d images" in hightech video games/movies, the images are written right into your video card's hardware ram, not system ram. print screen can't just suck it from system ram, it has to grab it from the video ram.

You hit print screen, windows goes to grab the image, and it grabs whatever is in system ram. The movie you are watching isn't there, it's in the 3dcards buffer.

You will notice you also get blank screens, or shots of the desktop if you try to take SS's in 3d video games.

It looks to me like you have hardware acceleration turned on for your movies. Windows built in print screen can't get anything that's harware acclerated without a third party program.

Solutions
#1 turn off hardware acceleration(direct 3d accelration), and take the shot.
#2 use a 3rd party program.

Hypersnap DX used to be a crippled version until you registered it. i haven't used it since I was beta testing games.. Ill take a look around for it.

*edit* took a look at hypersnapDX.. looks like it just stampes you images with a logo from them , no spyware installed

Linky..... http://hyperionics.com/