Capturing hi-res bitmaps in Movie Maker 2?

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Hi all-

This is driving me nuts, so please please please help if you can.

Before recently formatting my computer, I had MM2 installed which i used for
captures and exporting stills. At first, MM2 wouldn't let me export anything
other than jpegs at 388x288.

However, at some point I installed some "mystery" app (MS Plus Digital Media
Edition? WinDVR? Mediastudio? IUVCR? None of the above?) which apparently as
a side effect suddenly allowed me to export bitmaps from MM2 at 720x576.
Also, the file names would increment so i didn't have to specify a file
name, just click away for each frame i liked. I didn't question it at the
time, and just used MM2 happily exporting my hi res pics. Now I've formatted
and I can't remember/don't know what i was that caused MM2 to allow me to do
this, and I'm back to 388x288 jpegs.

No other app comes near MM2 in simplicity when it comes to snapping pics
from frames so if anyone has ANY ideas, I'd be very very grateful.

TIA for any replies.

JDC
 
This is from the Help file in MM2 under
Tools>Options>Advanced>Video settings

Taking pictures
You might want to take a picture of a frame of captured
or imported video in Windows Movie Maker. This lets you
capture an individual frame from the video, and then use
the resulting picture in your movie. Taking a picture of
a video frame lets you utilize the existing captured or
imported video in other ways in your movie.

The display size of the captured picture depends on where
you took the picture of the video in Windows Movie Maker.
If you take a picture of a frame of video displayed in
the monitor from the Contents pane, the display size of
the picture matches the display size of the original
source video file. For example, if the original video
file displays at 640x480 pixels, the resulting picture
you take also displays at 640x480 pixels. However, if you
take a still picture of a frame of video from a video
clip on the storyboard/timeline, the dimensions of the
picture are 320x240 pixels. Pictures you capture in
Windows Movie Maker are saved as JPEG files, with a .jpg
file name extension.

Note

If you take a picture is from video in the Contents pane
that displays at a size larger than 800x600 pixels, the
picture is reduced to 800x600 pixels in Windows Movie
Maker. However, the original source picture file is
captured at the original display size of the video.

TG
 
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