Hi,

I've got a video that I want to take a still image from but if I print screen at the point then when I paste it the video screen just becomes almost like a transparent layer on the desktop. Don't know if that makes sense.

does anyone know how to do it or can anyone do it for me. Its a video of me driving my indy and its of my face with jelly cheeks. I want as a facebook profile image...

cheers


[Edited on 15/6/09 by Mark G]

yeah! i get that too! its really annoying >

Media Player Classic will allow you to do this. You may need to download the appropriate codecs for whatever format you are using.

[Edited on 15/6/09 by MikeRJ]

bit high end type stuff but adobe premiere the video editing program allows you export a frame to an image format like jpeg/tif etc....

give media player classic a bash though

there are several programms that allo you to take a snapshot. not sure whether it can be done in moviemaker standard MS programme supplied with nearly all MS operating systems

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Originally posted by Mark G
Hi,

I've got a video that I want to take a still image from but if I print screen at the point then when I paste it the video screen just becomes almost like a transparent layer on the desktop. Don't know if that makes sense.

does anyone know how to do it or can anyone do it for me. Its a video of me driving my indy and its of my face with jelly cheeks. I want as a facebook profile image...

cheers


[Edited on 15/6/09 by Mark G]

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you can do it in moviemaker

There's a really good bit of software which I've used to do this which goes back and forwards a few frames to smooth the image and produce better quality.

Can't remember the name for the life of me htough I'll try posting a link when I'm back at home and on my desktop.....

Topaz moment

http://www.topazlabs.com/moment/

that's the fella. Top banana software.