Why The Fuck!?!?!?!
 

1 hour now and i can not for the life of me work out why my fucking computer will not let me capture an image from a video...

Print screen does not work, HyerSnap does not work! GRRRR! whats going on???

I have windows XP installed!

Due to the way videos are display with at least Windows Media Player (and probably a lot of other players), your screenshot will end up having a big black space in place of the real video. I've often remedied this by either doing the shot really fast (with HyperSnap) or using something like VirtualDub to isolate a single frame in it.

Try a few different players and see if you can get it. Adobe Premiere is another good option.

just turn off the overlay option

how the fuck do u do the shot really fast this is doing my fucking head in

turn off your hardware accelleration.

how

I guess this is the only one way to work

tools menu => options => performance => advanced => untick "use overlays" ... this tip must be worth a beer :Graucho

DX gave you the solution.

In Windows Media Player

Tools--->Options---->Performance

push the slider on 'Hardware Acceleration' to 'None'

you can also use animation shop pro, I always use that program... just open a file and pick a frame from it.

tks this worked!

ok, there is only one way I have found to do it.

1. http://www.download.com and search for "Cliprex"
2. Download it
3. Open it
4. Add files to the playlist, open one of them
5. Right click on the playing video and go to "capture photos"
6. Click on Disable Overlay... you can then capture in cliprex... or if doing it with an independent program... exit the capture photos menu
7. You will be prompted to enable overlay or leave it disabled... Regardless, choose NO

You will have to run the movies which you wish to gain captures of in cliprex, but you can use an independent program to do it. Your videos have disabled overlay as long as you play it in cliprex and as long as cliprex is open(obviously)

Now... who wants to eat my ass?

-Xinnov

i guess some people just like doing things the hard way..

what does overlays do?

does disabling hardware acceleration work with quicktime as well?

it does for me.

produce lame black screenshots! :1orglaugh ..I don't know really

is that a narc screener?

plug in your keyboard :2 cents: