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Can you use "print screen" or do you need software?

I personally don’t know. But I have a similar question, I want to get screen shots of some game cinematic, but everything always copies as nothing but solid back with some white mixed in when I past to paint. However with normal game play it works just fine with full color. What's going on?

Sea Skimmer wrote:I personally don’t know. But I have a similar question, I want to get screen shots of some game cinematic, but everything always copies as nothing but solid back with some white mixed in when I past to paint. However with normal game play it works just fine with full color. What's going on?

It's because of how the video overlay works. If you copy a video screen and paste into a program that is directly over the video, whatever frame is on the video overlay will appear.

I have no idea what Microsoft did to accomplish that.

Anyway, the best way would be to use a screen capture tool like the one included in Paint Shop Pro.

DownLoad snagIt 6. It's shareware and you'll never want to do print screen again.

You can capture videos, images, make videos, edit them, etc.

It's called colorkey. The video data never gets written to the framebuffer, so the screencap program can't grab it. Think of it as bluescreen in movie productions; the software puts a bluescreen rectangle into the framebuffer, and a separate overlay function composites an image into the bluescreen.

If you want DVD screencaps, get PowerDVD. It has a built-in screencap feature. I got a free copy with my Hercules Game Theatre XP.

As for games, that's trickier. I don't know if there's any way to snag the overlay.

Colonel Olrik wrote:DownLoad snagIt 6. It's shareware and you'll never want to do print screen again.

You can capture videos, images, make videos, edit them, etc.

I'll try it. Paint Shop Pro suffers the same problem so...

Snap it does not work.

Darth Wong wrote:
If you want DVD screencaps, get PowerDVD. It has a built-in screencap feature. I got a free copy with my Hercules Game Theatre XP.

How mcuh does it cost?

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:

Colonel Olrik wrote:DownLoad snagIt 6. It's shareware and you'll never want to do print screen again.

You can capture videos, images, make videos, edit them, etc.

I'll try it. Paint Shop Pro suffers the same problem so...

Damn, I'm sorry. It doesn't work with video. I thought it did, but now I tried it and has the same problem. It's still a very good software.

When I want a snapshot from a DVD I use the capture opttion of the DVD player that came with my computer (ASUSDVD 2000), so I never actually had to try other methods.

Colonel Olrik wrote:DownLoad snagIt 6. It's shareware and you'll never want to do print screen again.

You can capture videos, images, make videos, edit them, etc.

This I shall try

Most video games have a screen-grab key...

Dalton wrote:Most video games have a screen-grab key...

In my case and I believing generally such only works in game. I was trying to cut parts of the in-between mission screens and videos.

Sea Skimmer wrote:In my case and I believing generally such only works in game. I was trying to cut parts of the in-between mission screens and videos.

Probably easier to port it out to tape and do a screencap like that...

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:Snap it does not work.

Darth Wong wrote:
If you want DVD screencaps, get PowerDVD. It has a built-in screencap feature. I got a free copy with my Hercules Game Theatre XP.

How mcuh does it cost?

Why pay when you can get it for free. Kazaa might have it. Probably wrong thing for me to bring it up due to legal reasons.