Peter, What you have discovered is very true. What you need is a program that has the explicit ability to capture still images from video. Most still capture programs won't do. You can try Camtasia: http://www.techsmith.com which captures video. Then you can use print screen to capture a still from it. A difficult way but I don't know any video to still capture program. J. Dent At 07:45 AM 6/7/2004, you wrote: >I discovered a (to me) strange phenomenon in regard to the display of video >images. While displaying a video using InterVideo's WinDVD, I stopped the >video and used alt-PrintScrn to capture the image to the clipboard - or so I >thought. After pasting the "image" to Paint, I found that what Paint >displayed was like a window onto the video display. That is, if I moved the >Paint window, what showed in Paint was like a transparent view of what was >underneath. In other words, the picture itself was not captured. Apparently >the clipboard captured a "view" onto the video display program. > >Does anyone have some insight into this to share? I am a bit confused as to >how the clipboard captures such a capability. I thought that only the >current screen display would be captured, but this is not the case. > >A second question comes up. Is it possible to capture still images from the >video? I tried various screen capture programs, but they behave the same as >the standard clipboard. > >Thank you for any info. > >Peter >----------------------------------------------- >The NoSpin Group >[log in to unmask] > > PCSOFT maintains many useful files for download > visit our download web page at: > http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml Hi! Quote Of the Day: John Do you want to signoff PCSOFT or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcsoft.shtml