How do i capture screenshots of a avi movie?

Question

Somebody please help me, I want to take pictures of some scenes from a avi movie that I recently downloaded. Maybe I need a certain software, I have tried a few such as Snag it but they are very hard to use. Could anyone recommend me a easier software? Thanks for your help in advance.

Answer 1

Press the pause button of the player which is playing the avi on your screen.
Press the key with the name Print PrtScr writen on it, you can normally find it on the righ hand side of keyboard on the same row as the F keys.
Go to Paint Program
Find it by clicking start / Programs/ accessories/Paint
Go straight to the edit menu click it
then click on paste and a screenshot taken when you pressed the PrtScr button will be pasted into paint.
now go to the select tool in paint looks like a square with dotted border lines, click it, draw a square aroung the picture of the avi, go back to edit and click copy/ then click file / new and your are asked if you want to save changes choose NO.
now go to edit and click on paste.
the picture you now have is whatever frame you paused the player at. if the player has gone passed your picture after you clicked pause then use the slider on the player to move back to the frame you want by putting mouse cursor on the slider and holding down left mouse button drag to left or to the right if you want to move frame by frame through the movie.
one last thing if the picture in paint is sitting on a white background which is the page or pallette in paint go to attributes found in the image menu of paint and choose small sizes such as 50 width and 50 height then paste the picture as above now your picture is just the size of the canvas which has expanded to accmodate your picture FFFHHhew! I hope that helps

Answer 2

1.Pause the movie on the scene you want.
2.Hold down ctrl and press the prt scr button (next to F12)
3.Open up a drawing program such as Paint
4.Go to edit and click Paste
5.Crop the picture with one of the drawing tools
6.paste it to a blank document
7.Save it

Answer 3

just hit the print screen button when the movie is playing - this will copy a snapshot of the screen to the clipboard, then open up 'paint' in
start>all programs> paint

then press ctrl+v to paste in the image from the clipboard

Answer 4

I think Windows Movie Maker may help you

Answer 5

wbpinhead's method will work a treat, but there's one final tweak: if you hold down ALT while you push PRNT SCRN, you will only capture the contents of the video window, not the remainder of the garbage on your screen

Answer 6

windows movie maker

Answer 7

do a search for "QE SuperResolution". It's what I use.

Answer 8

VLC player will do it.