Photoshop question

[kainedamo]

Hey guys. So, I wanted to take a couple of screenshots of a video in Windows Media Player. I pasted a shot onto Photoshop, then saved it for the web. I did another screenshot and did the same. Today, when I went to look at the pics, its went all weird. Both pics - the show the Windows Media Player window... but inside it is blank. It's all black.

Whats that all about? Yesterday when I was doing this, it seemed to act a bit weird too. I'd paste the screenshot into Photoshop, then bring up Windows Media Player to look for another screenshot. When I minimized it, the pic in photoshop would reflect what I just minimized... which is very strange.

 

[04nbod]

its copyright law- DVD's are copy protected- even for screencaps try powerDVD- that captures i think

 

[webhead731]

You can't take caps from Windows Media. Use Quicktime or something.

 

[KalMart]

Quicktime Pro has an Exort functio nwhere you can convert the movie into other formats or export the frame thath you have paused on as a still image. Sometime copyright blockages come up, but for DVD material, I usually rip the chapter/sequence I need from the disc, then open up the .m2v file in either QT pro or MPEG Streamclip to do what I need with it.

At the very least, there should be some capture apps. where you can choose the entire screen, a specific window, or a selection that you mouse over. In Mac it's the 'Grab' utility.

 

[Calvin]

I've noticed if I turn off hardware acceleration in the control panel display settings, I can screencap from Windows media player and windows media player classic.