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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on August 23, 2004, 11:41:44 pm

Title: AVI screenshots?
Post by: Kosh on August 23, 2004, 11:41:44 pm

I've been trying to figure out a way to take screenshots in an avi movie file (like the FS2 intro and so forth). The windows screenshot function doesn't work (the AVI frames always come out completely black), and neither does FRAPS (the frames are almost totally green). Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Title: AVI screenshots?
Post by: Liberator on August 23, 2004, 11:46:29 pm

Well, you can DL the Paintshop trial, it used to come with Animation Shop.  

VirtualDub is also good, it's a decent AVI editor and I beleive it will let you copy a frame or two.

Title: AVI screenshots?
Post by: Sandwich on August 24, 2004, 12:08:49 am

FS2 movies aren't in AVI format... unless you mean the ones we recompressed?

Title: AVI screenshots?
Post by: Kosh on August 24, 2004, 01:12:52 am

The recompressed ones, of course.

Title: AVI screenshots?
Post by: JR2000Z on August 24, 2004, 01:41:18 am

PowerDVD.

Title: AVI screenshots?
Post by: Fury on August 24, 2004, 01:49:03 am

Any decent video player should be able to take screenies.
Zoomplayer can do it for example.

Title: AVI screenshots?
Post by: Cyker on August 24, 2004, 02:33:54 am

The reason it's green is because ALL modern video cards use a chromakey'd hardware overlay window for video-playback.

A little trick 'tho - If you open the video, and then open it again in a new window, the second one won't be using the video card's hardware overlay and normal screenshot softs will work :)

But using a dedicated proggy is probably easier...

Title: AVI screenshots?
Post by: TopAce on August 24, 2004, 10:14:13 am

:lol: I can take screenshots. It's because I only watch standard cutscenes, no AVI or any complicated things like that.

Title: AVI screenshots?
Post by: Setekh on August 24, 2004, 10:21:35 am

If you're viewing them in Windows Media Player, turn off video acceleration in the Options and you should be able to take screenshots properly. :)

Title: AVI screenshots?
Post by: Lightspeed on August 24, 2004, 10:30:35 am

VirtualDubMod owns you. :)

Title: AVI screenshots?
Post by: TopAce on August 24, 2004, 11:42:00 am

May have been asked at least 100 times before, but: How and where can I reach the AVIed FS2 cutscenes?

Title: AVI screenshots?
Post by: Tiara on August 24, 2004, 12:32:24 pm

INFRANVIEW!

:p

Title: AVI screenshots?
Post by: karajorma on August 24, 2004, 01:38:55 pm

Quote

Originally posted by TopAce
May have been asked at least 100 times before, but: How and where can I reach the AVIed FS2 cutscenes?

The Freespace FTP has them.