Author Topic: Screenshots from films (Read 349 times)

Donzo · « **on:** January 11, 2006, 06:38:04 PM »

How do you get a screenshot from a film?

Fury · « **Reply #1 on:** January 11, 2006, 07:14:32 PM »

When I am in the film viewer and get near the part I want to shoot, I hit full screen so the film is full screen and then I use a product called Snag-It to get the picture. I find that when pausing the film, sometimes the smoke and debris keeps moving even though the film is paused, so I usually crank the speed of the replay down to near paused so I have plenty of time to pick a shot. I find that pausing or trying to use the slider to go to another part of the film usually messes things up, so I only use the replay speed to get to where I want to be in the film.

I think Snag-It might be free to try but I ended up buying it anyways. Seems to work for me. I'm sure others have more input on what they use.

reeb · « **Reply #2 on:** January 11, 2006, 09:30:47 PM »

You can also pause the viewer where you wanna take the SS and then hit print screen. Then Open your paint program or whatever i used paintshop pro 9 atm, then Paste as new image.

Donzo · « **Reply #3 on:** January 11, 2006, 09:50:38 PM »

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Originally posted by reeb
You can also pause the viewer where you wanna take the SS and then hit print screen. Then Open your paint program or whatever i used paintshop pro 9 atm, then Paste as new image.

I always get low memory warnings when I try that.
Current memory: 512MB

Krusty · « **Reply #4 on:** January 12, 2006, 09:56:35 AM »

I have 512 MB as well but never get those warnings. Check your swap file in windows and your HD space -- make sure the swap file isn't too small (or too large) and that you have plenty of HD space.

Also close running programs. I can have film viewer open, photoshop open, MSIE open and be doing all the stuff needed to find a screenshot, take it, paste it, save it, and upload it, and I never get that error.