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[Ink]

ok, so i use photoshop quite often... n a couple o times, when id take videos on my camera. Id view them with quicktime. And press ctrl + print screen.... paste in photoshop, take out everything but the shot of the clip.... presto.. picture from video....

BUT its acting weird this time.. i took videos of the local fireworks, and when i press ctrl + prnt scrn n paste it in adobe... where the video would normally be theres just black.. and u can still see the video playing thru the black... I can take n move the adobe image n the video wills tay still in the background, ut the picture in the forground just hovers over it... wtf? anyone?

basically, its not screen shotting my video?

[Carl]

ok, so i use photoshop quite often... n a couple o times, when id take videos on my camera. Id view them with quicktime. And press ctrl + print screen.... paste in photoshop, take out everything but the shot of the clip.... presto.. picture from video....

BUT its acting weird this time.. i took videos of the local fireworks, and when i press ctrl + prnt scrn n paste it in adobe... where the video would normally be theres just black.. and u can still see the video playing thru the black... I can take n move the adobe image n the video wills tay still in the background, ut the picture in the forground just hovers over it... wtf? anyone?

basically, its not screen shotting my video?

That's a common problem with video screenshots. See if there's no option to decrease the level of hardware acceleration you use in your video playback, either in quicktime or through your video card directly. Full hardware acceleration usually results in that phenomenon. I experienced this with Windows Media Player, but solved it by decreasing the acceleration level.

Oh, and if you CAN view it with Windows Media Player, you could import the video into Windows Movie Maker (the second version, don't use the first) because they have an easy way to take screenshots of frames from the preview window.