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I want to capture a paused video screen shot and use it as my desktop.
I downloaded 2 free screen capture utilities as well as using the print screen button to capture the screen image to the clipboard then pasting to paint. when I use the utilties to save the screen shot as a jpeg, bmp or png... the file is completely black (no picture) It seems as if you should be able to capture a screen shot from an avi,divx,mpg etc... so how do you do this?
the normal printscreen-tric doesnt work on a movieclip, maybe if you search on google, you'll find a program that does the trick
I use BSPlayer: http://www.bsplayer.org
It has a nice "capture frame" feature, and the other features aren't bad either.
yes it does :D you just have to know the trick...Quote:
Originally posted by benneke
the normal printscreen-tric doesnt work on a movieclip, maybe if you search on google, you'll find a program that does the trick
quite by accident i discovered this:
say you're playing a divX avi file, but it wont capture. simply first open any divX or mpeg file with windows media player. then pause the video and minimize it or keep it in the background or whatever.
then open the film you want to capture in a new media player( i use zoomplayer: http://inmatrix.hoyty.com/mirror/zplay280.exe ) but you can use wmp. pause it at whatever part and hit print screen. i forgot how to capture a window. shift+printscreen?
anyways, paste it in mspaint or photoshop or whatever and you're done :D
i dont konw anything really about the inards of video cards, but i guess maybe cards with dual head are using that as a frame buffer or something. so the video data is in memory or something and i guess print screen only captures what is not in memory or something... man, i dont know. all i know is my old video cards never had this problem, not until i got a gf4 and radeon...
let me know if any of this sounds possible or right or whatever ;)
anyways, i know that trick works. the only thing i really have problems capturing is tv with the tv tuner on my AIW.
snagit is what I use, it may do the trick...
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Originally posted by Kero-chan
yes it does :D you just have to know the trick...
quite by accident i discovered this:
say you're playing a divX avi file, but it wont capture. simply first open any divX or mpeg file with windows media player. then pause the video and minimize it or keep it in the background or whatever.
then open the film you want to capture in a new media player( i use zoomplayer: http://inmatrix.hoyty.com/mirror/zplay280.exe ) but you can use wmp. pause it at whatever part and hit print screen. i forgot how to capture a window. shift+printscreen?
anyways, paste it in mspaint or photoshop or whatever and you're done :D
i dont konw anything really about the inards of video cards, but i guess maybe cards with dual head are using that as a frame buffer or something. so the video data is in memory or something and i guess print screen only captures what is not in memory or something... man, i dont know. all i know is my old video cards never had this problem, not until i got a gf4 and radeon...
let me know if any of this sounds possible or right or whatever ;)
anyways, i know that trick works. the only thing i really have problems capturing is tv with the tv tuner on my AIW.
Dude those directions don't make any sense. The film I want to capture, what the hell are you talking about??? Snagit didnt work either, picture shows up as all black... this can't be that rare a thing to do
dude, wait, you mean you want to capture a picture from video?Quote:
Originally posted by bigpoppapumpg
Dude those directions don't make any sense. The film I want to capture, what the hell are you talking about??? Snagit didnt work either, picture shows up as all black... this can't be that rare a thing to do
if this is the case, i know my directions dont seem to make sense, but it works. i can prove it...
i just took a shot describing my method, but i need someone to host it...
in the screen shot, you will notice that the wmp is a blank screen, but the second video i loaded will capture perfectly fine with the print screen function.
This is how you do it:
1) Play movie.
2) Pause movie at desired location.
3) Hit printscreen or alt+printscreen (depending on whether you want the whole desktop captured or just the movie player's window).
4) Paste into a photoediting program and modify as desired.
Or, are you trying to do something else?
I figured out what you mean, have 2 different instances of WMP open and on the second process you can use print screen to paste to paint and save to background... that does indeed work. how odd that you need 2 WMP's open for that to work.
yes, that is indeed what i mean :DQuote:
Originally posted by bigpoppapumpg
I figured out what you mean, have 2 different instances of WMP open and on the second process you can use print screen to paste to paint and save to background... that does indeed work. how odd that you need 2 WMP's open for that to work.
i dont know if it works for dvd capture though...
I think it has to do with the way windows "overlays" the video.
sounds great, but doesnt work... try it!Quote:
Originally posted by sourdaisy
This is how you do it:
1) Play movie.
2) Pause movie at desired location.
3) Hit printscreen or alt+printscreen (depending on whether you want the whole desktop captured or just the movie player's window).
4) Paste into a photoediting program and modify as desired.
Or, are you trying to do something else?
Ok, now I see what you're saying. It's not so much that it's solid black, but that there is a "hole" in the screen where the movie should go. It looks black, but if you have the movie still open and you drag the screenshot around, the movie will display through the screenshot window! Crazy Windows. . . interesting thing is that you CAN take screenshots of media player visualizations. . .Quote:
Originally posted by bigpoppapumpg
sounds great, but doesnt work... try it!
sorry bigpop. . .I guess I don't know any other solutions except, use another OS ;) (just kidding of course, though linux doesn't have that problem)
we fixed the problem... scroll up and look at my solution ;)Quote:
Originally posted by sourdaisy
Ok, now I see what you're saying. It's not so much that it's solid black, but that there is a "hole" in the screen where the movie should go. It looks black, but if you have the movie still open and you drag the screenshot around, the movie will display through the screenshot window! Crazy Windows. . . interesting thing is that you CAN take screenshots of media player visualizations. . .
sorry bigpop. . .I guess I don't know any other solutions except, use another OS ;) (just kidding of course, though linux doesn't have that problem)
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yes problem solved, but how bizzare windows is... and how odd that you have to jump through hoops just to get a damn screen picture of a media file. that media player that someone suggested does work, kinda... but it's somewhat buggy.
Yup, I saw it. I was just looking for alternate ways of doing things, that's all :)Quote:
we fixed the problem... scroll up and look at my solution
hey sour, i take it you're into anime? i know this is off topic, but heck i started this thread anyways :D can you suggest any good anime, i've recently seen jin roh, metropolis, vampire hunter d. I own but haven't watched yet vampire hunter d 2,escaflowne the movie, and im waiting for in the mail grave of the fireflies,princess mononoke and the jewel of my collection Neon genesis evangelion box set entire series plus the 2 movies.
have you seen evangelion? i hear its the greatest anime series ever created. cant wait to see it.
i know you didnt ask me, but i couldnt help responding since i'm the biggest anime freak ;)Quote:
Originally posted by bigpoppapumpg
hey sour, i take it you're into anime? i know this is off topic, but heck i started this thread anyways :D can you suggest any good anime, i've recently seen jin roh, metropolis, vampire hunter d. I own but haven't watched yet vampire hunter d 2,escaflowne the movie, and im waiting for in the mail grave of the fireflies,princess mononoke and the jewel of my collection Neon genesis evangelion box set entire series plus the 2 movies.
have you seen evangelion? i hear its the greatest anime series ever created. cant wait to see it.
are you mostly into adventure/action type anime or cute type anime?
the evangelion series is really great and really twisted. if you like what gainax does(makers of eva) and you like funny stuff, check out "flcl" also know as "furi-kuri". it's one of the best anime ever.
a classic is the macross series, macross plus is really good. lain is really awesome, but a little slow. pretty twisted like eva.
if you like princess mononoke(mononoke hime) check out spirited away when it comes to theaters :D also most of studio ghibli's stuff is great. they did warriors of the wind(naussicaa) and my neighbor totoro, as well as kiki's delivery service.
if you are into that kind of stuff, cardcaptor sakura is really good. the american bastardized version is called cardcaptors and if you could see the difference between the two, you'd think it was a crime what warner brothers did.
another really good anime series is called "orphen" and the entired "slayers" series is just hilarious!
if you ever want any more info on anime, drop me a message or icq me at 41888081. if you have a fast connection i'll hook you up with some good fansubs for stuff like hikaru no go and alien09. :D
forgot to mention, if you like comics, there's some scanned manga at www.toriyamaworld.com
i'm currently reading the hikaru no go series. it's pretty awesome, especially how it pumps you up about "go" :D
omg! how could i forget?!? you have to watch Trigun and Cowboy bebop. outlaw star is great too :D
this will henceforth be known as the anime discussion thread! :D I grew up in the northeast portion of the USA and apparently they aired a few anime type series here during the 80's that laregly weren't shown at all throughout most of America. I grew up watching star blazers, captian mask(can't remember what that show was called but it was a giant mecca show), and a cool show called force 5 which had one of my favorites of all time called Gaiking. Sadly it's almost impossible to find those shows now other than star blazers, Id love to get Gaiking on DVD.
i'd say im not so much into cute anime, princess mononoke was ok and I plan on getting spirited away when it comes to DVD because I hear its very good (although I also heard that about mononoke and I wasn't hugely impressed).
Ive seen an episode of cowboy bepop, I think they show that on toonami or sci fi once in awhile but I can never find the schedule. It looks cool, after EVA I might try to see that entire series. I think they also show outlaw star but I have no idea what thats about, and ive never heard of trigun. I hear macross is one of the best anime series ever made, but isn't there like a million episodes? Not sure I even want to get into that, would cost a fortune to collect it, and I have this feeling that the emphasis is too much on mechs and not enough on plot,storyline,charachter development etc.
I've read article after article about EVA and have seen episodes 1-6. what appeals to me about that is the deep and intricate storyline, the interesting use of relgious and mythological symbolisms and metaphors, the though provoking philosophical ponderings that the subject matter evokes, the attention to developing deep and believable characthers and the sci fi/fantasy setting that serves as EVAs backdrop. This is considered cerebral or intellectual anime, and thats more appealing than fluffy plots. will get it today and probably start watching it.
there's like 36episodes to macross i think. you really dont have to watch macross to see macross plus though. it's a 4 part series, and comes on 2 dvds. also about cute anime, i know it's not everyone's thing, but dont knock it ;) a lot of them tend to have very good stories like CCS, but they dont go all psychological like eva does. (btw, the cross shaped explosions were stupid, but everything else rocked :D)Quote:
Originally posted by bigpoppapumpg
this will henceforth be known as the anime discussion thread! :D I grew up in the northeast portion of the USA and apparently they aired a few anime type series here during the 80's that laregly weren't shown at all throughout most of America. I grew up watching star blazers, captian mask(can't remember what that show was called but it was a giant mecca show), and a cool show called force 5 which had one of my favorites of all time called Gaiking. Sadly it's almost impossible to find those shows now other than star blazers, Id love to get Gaiking on DVD.
i'd say im not so much into cute anime, princess mononoke was ok and I plan on getting spirited away when it comes to DVD because I hear its very good (although I also heard that about mononoke and I wasn't hugely impressed).
Ive seen an episode of cowboy bepop, I think they show that on toonami or sci fi once in awhile but I can never find the schedule. It looks cool, after EVA I might try to see that entire series. I think they also show outlaw star but I have no idea what thats about, and ive never heard of trigun. I hear macross is one of the best anime series ever made, but isn't there like a million episodes? Not sure I even want to get into that, would cost a fortune to collect it, and I have this feeling that the emphasis is too much on mechs and not enough on plot,storyline,charachter development etc.
I've read article after article about EVA and have seen episodes 1-6. what appeals to me about that is the deep and intricate storyline, the interesting use of relgious and mythological symbolisms and metaphors, the though provoking philosophical ponderings that the subject matter evokes, the attention to developing deep and believable characthers and the sci fi/fantasy setting that serves as EVAs backdrop. This is considered cerebral or intellectual anime, and thats more appealing than fluffy plots. will get it today and probably start watching it.
if you really like that kind of story, serial experiments lain will rock your world :D
as far as the toonami stuff that comes on, to get the real experience, you have to watch it subtitled, not english dubbed ;) i'm suprised they havent showed trigun yet. it's one of the best anime out there :) here's a brief description: http://www.uk-anime.net/lockon/trigun.html
http://www.uk-anime.net/review-images/trigun.gif
i dont know about that, EVA is supposed to have really great dubbing. also i dont know about that trigun series, anything that is supposed to be funny or comical in anime always comes off as pretty bad. comedy and easy going anime isn't really my style.
bummer :(Quote:
Originally posted by bigpoppapumpg
i dont know about that, EVA is supposed to have really great dubbing. also i dont know about that trigun series, anything that is supposed to be funny or comical in anime always comes off as pretty bad. comedy and easy going anime isn't really my style.
to each his own i guess ;)
hehe, but one day i hope you'll learn, just as i have my son, that subbed is way better than dubbed... i probably spent $400 on anime all dubbed, and i really regret it now :( fortunately, a few dvds offer both japanese and english audio ;)
also, before you pass judgement on comical anime, you gotta see ranma 1/2
it's one of the few anime that is actually good subbed and dubbed ;)
I would eva to the list of good dubs, and iv'e looked at it dubbed theres no way anyone can read that fast in some of the quicker moving scenes. I watched EVA most of the day and am on episode 21 I think. This is getting pretty weird, but then again I expected a bizzare series so its living up to its hype. cant wait to find out how it ends, waiting for the 2 movies to get here in the mail this week so I can see the alternate endings.
omg, you think it's weird now -_-Quote:
Originally posted by bigpoppapumpg
I would eva to the list of good dubs, and iv'e looked at it dubbed theres no way anyone can read that fast in some of the quicker moving scenes. I watched EVA most of the day and am on episode 21 I think. This is getting pretty weird, but then again I expected a bizzare series so its living up to its hype. cant wait to find out how it ends, waiting for the 2 movies to get here in the mail this week so I can see the alternate endings.
the "alternate" endings were made because the last episode didnt come across well with the fans. they felt it wasnt conclusive enough. the movies are pretty damn conclusive and sad and twisted :eek:
hehe before I started watching this series I downloaded a queen video, bohemian rhapsody set to images of EVA. Now that ive seen alot of the series I have some predictions that i'll look back tommorrow after I finish and see how accurate they were. Seeing this video suggested some things, but context is everything.
I think Rei is artifcial, perhaps even an angel. I saw footage of her killing some people, so I think maybe she was feeding on them, or maybe protecting herself. I think maybe she is the white figure of a women being born out of the planet earth I saw. I'm not sure who had the huge white female face with glowing red eyes, maybe rei again. shes not what she seems I know that, I saw her arm fall off in the video. I think all the angels kill themselves at the end, maybe they finally see something in humanity they misjudged and worth saving. I think maybe shinji proves humans worth to the angels, maybe through some heroic or sacficial act.
there is a haunting scene I saw in that video where it looks like shinji is looking through a window or at a reflection of a naked woman who is disintegrating before his eyes and covered with blood. the look on his eyes is one of shock, disbelief and intense sadness... I'd say it was Rei disintegrating but the womans hair wasn't blue... maybe shinjis mom?
Anyways I'm not gonna check back here till im done watching the series, will have to wait for the movies. be interesting to see how right I am, or how wrong.