Posted by Michael Wozniak on 09/06/05 18:12

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>
> OK, easy : Open media player, go to menu Tools->Options->Performance.
> Choose "Advanced" button, make sure "Use video mixing renderer" is
> chosen, and "Use high quality mode" (*not* use overlays) is checked.
>
> Now you can screen-cap the player. Start your video, pause at the
> point you want to capture. Press & hold the Shift button then while
> held down, press the PrtScrn button (usually just above the insert and
> home keys on your keyboard). Ever wondered what that did ?
>
> OK, open some image editor, such as Paint. Now you can press Ctrl+V
> (or choose Paste from the menu). You have a screenshot of the player.
>
> Crop the image using the image editor tools - in Paint you'd have to
> use the Select tool to outline the image area you want, copy + paste
> that into a *new* paint document.
>
> Finally, Save-As JPEG and the job's done.
>
> HTH
> Cheers - Neil

Thanks, but I can't get it to work yet. I can paste the screenshot in (why
didn't I think of screenshot?) using paint or another lame photo program,
but when I try to crop or move things in the receiveing program, all I get
is black - as if the WMP screenshot is layered, and the receiving s/w only
wants to work with the black background & not the video still itself. Maybe
I don't have all the boxes checked right? I couldn't find the "high quality"
box, and I unchecked the "overlays" box as suggested. I'll bet its a
checkbox issue.

Thanks,
Mikey

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