Movie clip files

[KellyK]

I apologize if this is not the proper forum to post this, I couldn't find one that seemed appropriate.

The problem is this: I have received a floppy full of Movie Clip files to play on Windows Media Player. The files contain footage of damage to my company's equipment. In order to provide necessary documentation to our Subro department, they need to have hard copies of the photos. I have tried pausing the film and saving as .jpg, .gif, and .bmp and this does not work. I get a red X when I try to open them. Is there some other way to get a "freeze frame" of the film and then print it out? I don't want to do a print screen because I don't want to see the Windows Media Player program, just the actual footage. Any suggestions would be wonderful.

Kelly

 

[ChrisCalvert]

Sure, just turn down video acceleration (may not have to go all the way down, but at least down one notch) and pause it, use prtscrn button to capture a screenshot of the desktop to the clipboard, and paste into your favorite graphics program (paint will work). Then just crop out everything that is not what you want (desktop, etc.)


-CHris

 

[KellyK]

Chris, Thanks for the suggestion but after I paste into Paint and crop out what I don't want, the file is HUGE. It is so big that I cannot save it to my desktop or to our network (somewhere around 26,000kb). I have 8 movies I need to do and I can't save even one. If you or anyone else has other suggestions I'd appreciate it!

Kelly

 

[Dillinger99]

What kind of movie clip is it? Irfanview can extract frames from movie files .avi files.

 

[KellyK]

They are .mpg files.

Kelly

 

[ChrisCalvert]

Wow... you must have a huge desktop res. I can't explain that. I pasted a screenshot of my desktop into paint (just to test) and my file size, for the whole desktop, was only 2.2 megs. There are several programs which will capture a screenshot, but most of them just grab a snapshot of the video memory. This is a problem, because if you are using any video acceleration, the video ram is bypassed (in favor of the video cards ram) and therefore you don't see anything where the video was. I suggest trying the program above, as that might work for you. If not, try the method I described, but click save as, and use .jpg, and see if that helps.

-CHris

 

[craigey]

why don't you just use the "print screen" key. go to Paint. Go to edit -> Paste. then crop the image to just the bit you want (exclude media player). Save the pic. If it's still to big Then you can go to microsoft photo editor and change the image size. Reduce it by xx%.