Re: Downloading photos from a camera chip

In article <402851F188m5kU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, jonREMOVETHISdanniken@xxxxxxxxx
says...
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>"kenosee" wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Can anyone tell me how to save a photo mistakenly taken in the movie
>> mode on my digital camera, as a still photo to My Pictures on my
>> computer. I can right-click on copy, but the "paste" window is grey,
>> not allowing me to copy the still photo. Of course I can copy the
>> movie version, but I just want a still photo from the movie version.
>
>You could always hit your "Print Screen" button while you are looking at the
>picture; this will paste the current contents of your monitor onto the
>clipboard. From there, open up any graphics application and paste it; crop
>it to the picture, and then save it in whatever format you wish.
>
>Another method, if you have Quick Time, Export it using "Movie to BMP"
>option.
>
>No matter what the option, you will be saving a frame from a compressed
>video stream, which is obviously going to pale in comparison to a regular
>image.
>
>Jon

Along these same lines many vid-editing programs allow you to do screen saves
to various still image formats, i.e. Avid's Pinnacle Studio. Probably
available in MS MovieMaker, but I have not looked around for it.

Hunt

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