Rats -- I let some of the smoke out!

Phil Nelson

Maybe I should have watched this meter :-(

"Fiend Without a Face" -- one of the classics. Where did you get such
beautiful images? The Criterion disk?

For those who haven't seen this film -- it's one of the great sci-fi /
horror flicks.

That's it. I just made screen captures from Media Player.

The Criterion disk?

"Phil Nelson" wrote in message
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That's it. I just made screen captures from Media Player.

The Criterion disk?


Fabulous screen capture. I just use Ctrl-PrtSc myself, then edit with Corel
PhotoPaint.

How did you do that?

Fabulous screen capture. I just use Ctrl-PrtSc myself, then
edit with Corel PhotoPaint. How did you do that?

I use Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI. Play the movie in Windows Media Player
and pause it where you like. The on-screen movie controls will disappear a
couple of seconds after you move the mouse away from that window.

In Paint Shop, go to File/Import/Screen Capture/Setup. Set the Capture mode
for Client Area. Set the Delay timer for 10 seconds. Click Capture Now.

Paint Shop will minimize, giving you 10 seconds to get your mouse out of the
way of Media Player and capture the movie still.

No editing required. You get the entire movie image, without window borders,
etc. Takes about 12 seconds :-)

Phil Nelson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Nelson"
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.radio
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 2:25 PM
Subject: Just another night in my workshop


Fabulous screen capture. I just use Ctrl-PrtSc myself, then
edit with Corel PhotoPaint. How did you do that?

I use Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI. Play the movie in Windows Media
Player and pause it where you like. The on-screen movie controls will
disappear a couple of seconds after you move the mouse away from that
window.

In Paint Shop, go to File/Import/Screen Capture/Setup. Set the Capture
mode for Client Area. Set the Delay timer for 10 seconds. Click Capture
Now.

Paint Shop will minimize, giving you 10 seconds to get your mouse out of
the way of Media Player and capture the movie still.

No editing required. You get the entire movie image, without window
borders, etc. Takes about 12 seconds :-)

Phil Nelson


Thanks for the details, Phil. I have PhotoPaint 6 here, and it is
celebrating it's 10th birthday this year, I think. So, it's doesn't have
any notion of video editing in it.

However, your method made me wonder why I can't get rid of the movie
controls in WMP when in full-screen mode. I tinkered around long enough and
found out how to do it. So here's my new means of getting a still shot:

Watch (and find) the section where the still will come from while in
"less-then-full-screen" mode, and pause on the spot you want.

Hit Ctrl-PrtSc, then Esc to exit full-screen, and in PhotoPaint, I go to
File|New from Clipboard and vy-ola! Perfect picture. It's too big though
really, so I adjust as I always do.

8.5 seconds including the save.

Rats. I missed putting in an important step. See below:

"Buck Frobisher" wrote in message
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Nelson"
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.radio
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 2:25 PM
Subject: Just another night in my workshop


Fabulous screen capture. I just use Ctrl-PrtSc myself, then
edit with Corel PhotoPaint. How did you do that?

I use Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI. Play the movie in Windows Media
Player and pause it where you like. The on-screen movie controls will
disappear a couple of seconds after you move the mouse away from that
window.

In Paint Shop, go to File/Import/Screen Capture/Setup. Set the Capture
mode for Client Area. Set the Delay timer for 10 seconds. Click Capture
Now.

Paint Shop will minimize, giving you 10 seconds to get your mouse out of
the way of Media Player and capture the movie still.

No editing required. You get the entire movie image, without window
borders, etc. Takes about 12 seconds :-)

Phil Nelson


Thanks for the details, Phil. I have PhotoPaint 6 here, and it is
celebrating it's 10th birthday this year, I think. So, it's doesn't have
any notion of video editing in it.

However, your method made me wonder why I can't get rid of the movie
controls in WMP when in full-screen mode. I tinkered around long enough
and
found out how to do it. So here's my new means of getting a still shot:

Watch (and find) the section where the still will come from while in
"less-then-full-screen" mode, and pause on the spot you want.
************************************************** *****
EDIT: Hit Alt-Enter to put Windows Media Player into full-screen mode.
************************************************** *****

Hit Ctrl-PrtSc, then Esc to exit full-screen, and in PhotoPaint, I go to
File|New from Clipboard and vy-ola! Perfect picture. It's too big though
really, so I adjust as I always do.

8.5 seconds including the save.

I don't know what your screen resolution is, but I didn't see any need to
put Media Player into full-screen mode. Letting it run in a smaller window
(the size chosen by Media Player when it started), I got nice resolution for
the movie still. In that mode, the on-screen controls disappear about a
second after you move the mouse away from the window.

I guess you could try both methods and see whether the final result looks
any different.

Phil

************************************************** *****
EDIT: Hit Alt-Enter to put Windows Media Player into full-screen mode.
************************************************** *****

So, it's doesn't have
any notion of video editing in it.

P.S. I didn't use any video editing functions -- simply the ability to make
a screen capture of any other application running at the time.

Phil Nelson