Today at work, I needed to take a screen capture of a movie running in windows media 10. I loaded the movie and pressed the "print screen" button on the keyboard. When I pasted the image into photoshop, the media player was black.
After some google searches and playing with the horid media player 10 interface, I figured it out.
- Open Window Media Player
- click on the "down arrow icon" in the upper right corner of the app
- navigate to options
- click the performance tab
- click the "Advanced…" button
- uncheck "use overlays"
- click "ok"
- click "apply"
- click "yes"
- click "ok"
Now when you press the "print screen" button when windows media player is running, you will capture the movie frame, not a black box.