Don,
Thanks for taking the time to get back to me with detailed instructions on
making screen captures both in IrfanView and Nero Showtime.
IrfanView is chock full of many wonderful easy-to-use features, but I never
before had the need to discover and use its screen capture feature.
Unfortunately, I didn't have much success using the IrfanView method (which
I attribute as being a problem linked to my machine's paltry 8 MB of
integrated video with a generic driver), but I did have good success using a
trial version of Nero Showtime CE available here
http://trailer.nerodigital.com/enu/download.php.
So the handwriting's on the wall: this antique Gateway desktop needs a video
hardware upgrade which should buy it a few more years of useful time before
permanent retirement. A modern 64 or maybe 128 MB PCI video card with good
driver support should do the trick.
Thanks again for your help.
Kind regards,
Jeffrey Ottie
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Original Message --
From: Don Penlington
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] QuickTime
Jeffrey wrote:
><<I have several QuickTime home movies from which I would like to extract
>frames in order to make an IrfanView slideshow to send to family and
friends
>scattered around the country. I suspect there's a relatively easy way to do
>this, but I haven't as of yet discovered just what that easy way might
be.>>
If you download the Irfan Quicktime plugin from the Irfan site, you can use
Irfan to play most .mov files.
Press spacebar to freeze the frame, then minimize the window (assuming you
are playing in full-screen mode). This will bring you back to the Irfan
window. Click Options/Capture/Screenshot and set wherever you want to save
to and the save method. Thereafter if you hit Ctrl+ F11, you will save
each freeze-frame as desired.
Alternatively, better and easier, Nero Showtime plays .mov files and has a
builtin frame capture. (The little camera icon). But I think it costs.
Don Penlington
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