Mike, No expert here at all, but I had to deal with this problem before. The issue here is that the video output goes directly to the video card and not through all the regular processing (not 100% - know nothing about hardward) so when you try to do a screen capture, there really is no video data on the screen as the main hardware is bypassed.
Only luck I had is what someone else suggested, open it up in a video program and use their built-in screen capture functionality. ....................... Ben Nadel Web Developer Nylon Technology 350 7th Avenue Floor 10 New York, NY 10001 212.691.1134 212.691.3477 fax www.nylontechnology.com "You know, like nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills... Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills." - Napoleon Dynamite -----Original Message----- From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 8:47 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: What do you use to capture a video frame? As it turned out, the HypersnapDX that Patric suggested wouldnt capture the video image either. Just like all the other capture mechanisms I'd tried up to that point, it captured anything on the desktop EXCEPT the content of the video. Which is what i wanted in the first place. So here's what I ended up doing: I used right-click/ Open with ... and tried a few programs, none of which would capture the image i needed. All captured anything BUT the video. I used right-click/open with ... and chose Internet explorer. It opened the video and I was able to capture it by using Alt-PrtScrn (anyone forgotten what those keys are for? it copies a window or the whole desktop to the clipboard, to be pasted into some other program). I pasted the result into a new image in fireworks, then cropped off all the bits of the desktop I didnt want, reduced the size of the image, exported it as a jpg and used it in my content management system. If anyone wants to see the result, it's at http://bluegrass.org.au/index.cfm?pid=111454 WARNING: content includes banjos - view with adult supervision. It links to a 3.5minute video done with flash video. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On 5/17/06, Dawson, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I use Macromedia's RoboScreenCapture. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Tong - TalkWebSolutions.co.uk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 6:29 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: What do you use to capture a video frame? > > I use snagIT www.techsmith.com/ > > -- > Nick Tong > > web: http://talkwebsolutions.co.uk > blog: http://succor.co.uk > shorturls: http://wapurl.co.uk > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:240764 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
