<p>I admit that I’m less than adept from a technological standpoint. Is there any way to print a still image from a You Tube video? When I right click, it doesn’t give me any promising options. Thanks, techies!</p>
<p>I do not know how one can select a specific frame for printing without a special program, and I’m definitely not a techie, but I’ve used print screen function (xp) or snipping tool ( win 7) to save images from screen. Pause your video, hit print screen, paste into paint, select the part of the image that you want, hit control x, open a new paint file, hit paste and then save.</p>
<p>That should have been “ctrl print screen”, but I’m sure you know that. I have no idea how this can be done on a Mac since I’m a PC.</p>
<p>Thanks. I couldn’t figure out where it ended up when I pressed print screen but I found it. I can’t get alt print screen to just copy the image, though…it keeps adding the whole you tube page.</p>
<p>I’ll have to try it at home…there is no “paint” on our work computers.</p>
<p>Thanks again!</p>
<p>The most accurate way to print a particular frame would be to download the video onto your computer, display it with a video program and then take a snapshot file and then edit out the stuff that you don’t want. On Mac OS X, I find that mpegstreamclip is good for capturing videos off of YouTube or other video sites. It’s main purpose is to do video format conversions but you can also scroll through the video frame by frame. You would need a tool that grabbed pictures into a file and those aren’t that hard to find.</p>
<p>On Windows, you can use Real Player to download YouTube Videos and then something like VLC to play the resulting FLV file in a Window. You can then use something like AnalogX Screen Capture to grab the frame.</p>
<p>Thanks, BCEagle, but way way way way way too complicated for me.</p>
<p>Alternatively you could find a teenager.</p>
<p>^^^^hahaha, funny BC</p>
<p>I’m surprised that you do not have Paint - it comes standard with XP Accessories. Go to the Start button, click on All Programs (green arrow), then look in the Accessories.</p>
<p>LOL, BCEagle! Or she can download the free trial version of Vegas :)</p>
<p>Mac OS X doesn’t come with a Paint application but you can download one off the web. I have one on my Mac but I don’t recall the name of it. My daughter knows the tools and tricks on a lot of multimedia stuff. I ask her about some things if I’m too lazy to figure it out myself.</p>
<p>They take stuff off of our computers at work. Of course, we still find many ways to waste time (duh! here I am!) but they do disable some things.</p>
<p>I must admit that I don’t like the “ask a teenager” assumption. My D has an English teacher who expects his students to be experts in desktop publishing…my poor D has spent so much time trying to figure out how to do things like inserting captions under pictures imbedded in text. I don’t know why adults assume that all teens know this stuff.</p>
<p>ctrl+alt+printscreen, paste it to paint</p>
<p>Wow, missypie, they are pretty tough! My H says only all videos and Facebook are blocked at his company.</p>
<p>You could also do a printscreen and paste it into a word document…not good if you want to edit further, but if you don’t have paint…</p>
<p>Our firm started out blocking Facebook but it’s become a pretty important tool for lawyers…checking out plaintiffs, expert witnesses. Instead of hiring the private i to film the personal injury plaintiff, sometimes “horribly injured” plaintiffs will post pictures of themselves zip-lining or whatever. Anyway, it’s become standard for lawyers to check out people on Facebook so they unblocked it.</p>
<p>We do block Craigs List, however.</p>
<p>I’m sure I have paint at home - just not at work, where I shouldn’t be messing with it anyway since it’s for a kid’s school thing.</p>
<p>I run into a ton of teenagers on some of the tech forums that I visit.</p>
<p>A lot of kids communicate in terms of technology and many of them feel pretty comfortable asking for help in forums and it helps to build up a kind of social environment.</p>
<p>I run into adults that have a hard time doing this because they are fearful of breaking something. Kids generally don’t have this fear and learn a lot via exploration.</p>
<p>Our son isn’t as good at this as our daughter and he’s a CS major. He prefers programming and theory to multimedia.</p>
<p>What slays me is that my D got a very high A in a required Multimedia class last year. Then this year the English teacher is asking them to do all this desktop publishing stuff that you’d THINK they would have learned in Multimedia class…if was a full year class, for goodness sake. </p>
<p>I’m trying to get the school district to understand that there is a disconnect between the computer skills that the students are being taught, and the skills that the teachers of other classes expect them to have.</p>
<p>there is usually a disconnect because curriculums in technology have to be pretty flexible. perhaps one course changed this year due to new software–and the other is a year or two behind in the planning process.</p>
<p>there are so many tutorials and so many aids to learning software now! youtube can be quite useful. the help button is one of the most important features of a program–everyone should learn how to use the help button!</p>
<p>check the website–there are usually faq sections and/or discussion forums where you can find answers to your questions.</p>
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<p>Oh, she did all that but it was ridiculous. On this one big project, the actual paper was finished on a Sunday. She was up late Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights trying to figure out how to do the technology stuff.</p>