Posted by Larry J. on 09/06/05 19:23

Waiving the right to remain silent, "Michael Wozniak"
<novamusic@access4less.net> said:

> 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.

This happens with some computer's video systems.

Try this. Open Windows Movie Maker which comes with all Windows
installations now. Open the movie file and play it in Preview. Stop
it at the frame you want. Select Tools/Take Picture From Preview.

Paste that still into your graphics application.

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