Video Frame Capture

Can you capture individual video frames for sharing or printing using Premiere Elements?

I am with you pal.  Jpeg never has the same quality as an original when viewed up close, and discerning pros will definitely be looking close.  However, when outputting your work, always consider your target.  I do a lot of posts to my Facebook with photographs.  I start with 8megapixel images, crop and enlarge in camera raw, clean some dust, save them in TIFF, then run automation actions in photoshop to add watermarks and save for web, with settings that are conducive to the type of image (action still, steady still, noise reduced still), which saves as Jpeg in a 1920x1080 or similar size based on the crop.  This saves a high def image with some smoothing of the pixels, with a standardized internet rgb color balance.  It holds fairly close to the real file, and from screen size, it's really difficult to tell a difference without pressing your face against the screen.  By compressing with the save for web, I can control the smooth\sharp compression artifacts to a greater degree, and I can ensure a smaller file size for use on the web.  Since most of my audience will sit back and enjoy (i.e., not the most discerning of eyes and not pressing faces against their screen), Jpeg will do fine.
As for screen caps from video... ...they are never clear when using a single frame.  If you can find two or more frames that don't have motion, export all of them, and have them process together, like with photoshop auto blend, you can usually get better results.  Personally, I process each as an HDR.  The best way I've found for extracting the frames is to create a dupe sequence, then add edit marks around the frames you want, export that to AE, and have AE export to image files as TIFF.  Then I go to work.  I dupe each frame at least twice, and process dark, and light, adding clarity and processing for the detail in each, then I process the main image for the smoother details like solids or skin tones, and combine each set to make an HDR, then I stack the TIFFs again, auto blend and make any adjustments to get the detail.
I use this when making the main menus of some video discs.  It's an emotional linkup when you're working on a family oriented project (wedding, bar\bat mitzvah, christening, baptism, etc), and it always ups the sell when you show the previews.  On faster systems this doesn't take long, but on my mobile setup, the processing takes hours, while the actual work is more like minutes.  It results in great images, with exceptional clarity.  Even when compressed, they retain better sharpness.

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    import java.util.*;
    import java.awt.*;
    import java.awt.image.*;
    import javax.imageio.*;
    import javax.media.*;
    import javax.media.control.*;
    import javax.media.format.*;
    import javax.media.util.*;
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              g.drawString((new Date()).toString(), 10, 25);
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              // Stop using webcam
              player.close();
              player.deallocate();
              System.exit(0);                    
    however, i am unable to use it together with my code... i m not even sure if im using it at the right place.. (note that u will have to discard some lines from the second code, because it is actually grabbing frames from a webcam in that example)
    if any1 can make it happen please help me. thx.

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