Taking a graphic off a video image?

How to?

[Bowdii]

I have 2 video clips on my website and I want the button you click on to be the start of the video. What I have done so far: alt + PrintScrn -> pasted in photoshop.
- When I resize the image in ps, the video player gets smaller - but the video image remains the same? Also, when I move the video player around - it seems that the whole video image is there - because when I move it, i see more and more of it...very weird!

I hope you understand this, let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks for any help/comments!

[korkus2000]

It sounds like you have layers on the picture which is strange since a screen capture should not have layers. Try flattening the image or saving it as a jpg after you paste the image.

[Bowdii]

Diffenetly is some kind of layers...

I tried both ideas, and still the same result:(

Is there some program I can use that, will take an image out of a video file?

[korkus2000]

What happened when you opened the jpeg you saved? Try a gif. Sounds like something may be wrong with your PS.

[Bowdii]

When I opend up the .jpg it the image in the player was Black.

I tried a .gif and when I opened it, it looked fine. But then I resized it, :(( Then it went back to the original problem, where the vid image is not being resized....

urghhgg

[moltar]

For some reason you cannot get a screen capture from a video file. I had this problem too.

You need to find a program that can extract frames from a video source. I do not remember a name though. Try download.com.

[RobinC]

Quite right - the reason it's capturing pure black is because the image *is* pure black - it's called Overlay, and it's where a "key" colour is used, and your gfx card is passed 2 images, the first one is your normal screen, the second one can be any shape/size, but only actually shows on the final output when the key colour is actually there...

The only software I have that I know can grab an image from the video stream is the same software that I generate the video stream with from my camcorder. Not sure if that helps, but I hope so ;-)

[Bowdii]

Well it diffenetly helps. Now I can stop wasting my time with PS ;-)

Thanks for the input everyone, I'll let you know if I find any software that can do this!

[PatrickDeese]

did you try pausing the video? :)

[Bowdii]

>>did you try pausing the video? :)

Yup, same black screen.

[robertito62]

Bowdii, try this:

1) open your windows media player
2) click on tools
3) click on options
4) click on tab 'performance'
5) Look for the attribute "video acceleration" and set it to none.

Try capturing a still again. Run the video, pause it and print the screen. Oh, you don't need to press Alt/print screen. Just stop the player and press print screen alone and then open a canvas in photoshop and paste the screen capture into the canvas. Do it as jpg.

This should work.

[KevinC]

if you are trying to do this with PS - your gonna make your hair gray, its just not gonna work how you want.

I will post the link but it may get snipped:
***.tmpgenc.net/index.html

If its snipped go do a search for "tmpgenc net"

Download this program and it has an option to output every frame of a video clip to still images. It is also very useful at converting video to other formats.

[Bowdii]

Ah yes, I remember that prog. I should of thought of that
:(

Thanks alot guys for all your input!