FABIO wrote:

Trying to get some screen shots from a video file but being thwarted at every turn. Usually for screen shots I just do the 'ol printscrn then paste into MS paint. Whenever I try this with movie files though it pastes the movie player with the movie actually playing into paint (moving picture) and mirrors what I do with the movie player (if I pause, the shot in paint pauses) and once I close the movie player the screen shot turns completely black.

Everyone else I know who has a graphics program that can capture screenshots says they only work with .mpeg's and .avi's. The one I'm trying to get shots from is .asf, which seems to be a big problem because if it were a simple mpeg or avi I could just capture it with my movie editor program.

Any suggestions? I couldn't find anything freeware that would definately seem to do the job online and the ones I did look at (gimp) had a billion different versions with another billion different developer tool sets, no clue what I actually needed.