# Grabbing still/frame from video

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/grabbing-still-frame-from-video/317624>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 27, 2010, 10:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/grabbing-still-frame-from-video/317624 "2010-12-27T22:10:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![jnsjohansson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/94ad74/32.png) [@jnsjohansson](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jnsjohansson)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2010, 10:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/grabbing-still-frame-from-video/317624/1 "2010-12-27T22:10:48Z")

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Hello forum, I’ve been struggling with this issue all day so I hope you can help me out.

Basically I saw the video intro at [http://champagnevalentine.com/](http://champagnevalentine.com/) and I wanted to duplicate the effect and turn it into something… I don’t know, something. I just want to get it to work!

It’s been a while since I did AS3 programming, so excuse me for being a bit rusty. I loaded a .mov as a FLVPlayback exported it as movie.swf and in the main.fla I made an URLRequest for the .swf. I then did all the silly math things that strobes it, and it all works out when I have an image, but with the movie.swf I just can’t get it to work.

With the image it’s just a matter of copying the bitmap and repositioning it. But how do I capture a still of the playing .swf?

I am a little bit lost within all the CopyPixels and BitmatData’s and I just can’t get it to work.  
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To make it short:

- I want to load a movie (a .mov in this case)
- I want in every frame to capture the frame of the playing movie and duplicate it/reposition it\*\*