MOvie Grabs - How to do them

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Originally Posted by Toby

Since I need a frame grab from a movie clip only once every blue moon, I use the cheap and dirty screen capture method. The only "gotcha" is that you have to remember to turn off video hardware acceleration or all you get is a black box.

Aha.. so THAT's what causes that. I don't know how many times that has pissed me off.. go to paste a print screen in photoshop and you have nothing but a black box . I don't really do movies either but I do have Frame-Shots (aka SnatchIt) which is an excellent program.