Mpeg Screen Capture To Single Frame

The_Rocking asked earlier if someone would send him individual screen captures from some of his vid clips.

I'm having about ten percent luck (i.e., ninety percent failures) trying to capture an image from a screen.

The tool I'm using is PaintShopPro by Jasc.

Occasionally, I'll get an accurate image from the screen, but usually what I wind up retrieving is a solid black image which is exactly the size (in pixels) of the actual image I captured (or more properly, "failed to capture").

I tried the three media players from MS; and got similar results from each one.

Where did I go wrong ?

It's tricky, but you have to move the media player screen around a bit and press print screen a few times so it captures it right. After you do it for awhile, you just get the hang of it...

Tricky Indeed !

Tricky Indeed !

You wrote...

<I> It's tricky, but you have to move the media player screen around a bit and press print screen a few times so it captures it right... </I>

I tried moving the screen around and then doing the screen capture. My success rate remains around ten percent (i.e., a ninety percent failure rate.)

What I find more astounding is that I...

-- freeze the Microsoft media player at a specific place.

-- switch over to Jasc PaintShop Pro

-- Try to do the screen capture

-- Watch the process fail.

-- Switch back to media player (which is still [supposedly] frozen)

-- The scene in the window has advanced about three-to-five seconds


Could you give me a little further detail on your tricky process ? I guess I'm not tricky enough.