printscreen problems

im trying to make a gif from a video. im using bs player to go frame by frame and was planning to print screen each frame. problem is when i printscreen and paste it into photoshop its not pasting the image right. its like its making a window for me to view the movie and as i move the window around i can see different portions of the frame almost like having an alpha in front of the printscreen, but i cant access the actual image. I dont really know how to explain it well im hoping someone has come across the same thing and knows a fix.

hi,
Not familiar with BS player.... however my experience with doing a "print screen" of a video many time end up with less than good quality and sometime unusal things occurrs.....

first as far as the initial issue... instead of hitting the "prtscn " key to do the print screen which tries capture the entire screen... do a alt+prtscn to screen capture... that will only capture the active window... that may work better.....

however... I think a much better meathod is to snag the frame!!!
if you have a third party video editor program , most of them will have a function to save a frame... I found this give me much better results on the quality... and generally I save in bmp or tif or png format , i don't like jpg ... if you don't have a third party movie editor , and if your video is in wmv or avi or mpg (a couple of other formats) then use your windows movie maker .... there a little button on the viewer part that will save the frame as a seperate picture in jpg format.... then you convert to gif ...
over all you get much better results and also to me that a lot faster than the print screen copy and paste routine!!!!

now another possiblity... but i only use this meathod if the avi clips are small.. smile..... I'll use a program like gifcon (it a animated gif creator type program..... it will convert a avi clip to a animated gif file.... and if i want i can then extract all the frames into seperate files automatically....

well any way those are my thoughts good luck

focusinc said:

im trying to make a gif from a video. im using bs player to go frame by frame and was planning to print screen each frame. problem is when i printscreen and paste it into photoshop its not pasting the image right. its like its making a window for me to view the movie and as i move the window around i can see different portions of the frame almost like having an alpha in front of the printscreen, but i cant access the actual image. I dont really know how to explain it well im hoping someone has come across the same thing and knows a fix.