Software to capture a video frame

Need recommendations

[garann]

Hi,

Can anyone recommend a good piece of freeware/shareware that will capture a frame from a .WMV video?

I've got two really short clips and I just need one frame from each. All the software I've tried so far has given very poor results or not been able to work with the WMV format. And I guess you can't use Alt+PrintScrn to screen capture video...

If anyone has a solution, no matter how quick & dirty, I'd appreciate hearing it. I've already blown half my morning on download.com and Google, and I have nothing to show for it!

Thanks,
g.

[HughMungus]

Are you sure you can't do a screencap? I have before and I did just now do PrintScreen then pasted into an image editor.

Alternatively, you can convert the file using ASF tools to a format that you can drop into VirtualDub 1.3c...or convert to AVI then use whatever.

[garann]

Nope, screen capture gives me the skin of Windows Media Player, but not the video playing in it. This is while it's paused. Is that how you're doing it?

Sorry to be dense, but what's an ASF tool?

[Stretch]

Snagit from techsmith is very good for this. Has 30 day free trial too.

On some machines I find that increasing your screen res to it's absolute max disables your gfx cards ability to do video overlay. It's the overlay that stops the video being captured using the print screen function so you might want to try this first.

Cheers

Stretch

[garann]

Thanks for the suggestions. Snagit's website was unavailable when I tried, so I had to use (what I assume is) an inferior product to convert to AVI and then do the frame capture.