grabbing frames from video

Ron Spencer · **Posted:** Tue Dec 22, 2009 7:31 pm

Can Windows Media center or any other free program grab individual video frames from a video? Individual frames to be saved as individual pictures.

Thanks

Ron

Matthew Fortner · **Joined:** Sun Mar 21, 2004 12:21 am **Posts:** 384

PrintScrn key and crop it? I think there is a print active window command, Alt+ PrintScrn? Not sure. I'm an OSX guy.

KouroshNeshat · **Posted:** Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:53 pm

quicktime may be able to. windows media may as well.

just pause on a frame you like and do a file>export and see if it works

Donnie Barnes · **Posted:** Tue Dec 22, 2009 10:34 pm

Quicktime definitely can on the Mac, so it probably does on Windows. You can't exactly just pick a few frames and export them easily, but you can clip to a small range and then export that to an image sequence. That's how I made my grinch avatars, in fact. You save video to an image sequence and then use a utility to convert to an animated gif (which just shoves all those images back into one file, really).

--Donnie

MikeWhitney · **Joined:** Wed Aug 20, 2003 9:15 pm **Posts:** 4724

FYI, XBMC on xbox does screencaps very easily for anything seen on the screen, including a video being played. Press the left thumb button to save a bmp, then FTP to the xbox and it's in the root XBMC directory. On a PC alt-printscreen is probably best but if the video isn't full-screen then editing is needed -- if I needed to do this on a portable it I'd definitely use the xbox, it's just easier. Of course you probably don't have an xbox

sample from a DVR avi file:

Ron Spencer · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:57 am

Thanks for the ideas. I'll try some. And Mike you are correct, no Xbox here.

Ron

JamesMilko · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 2:34 pm

I believe there is a special key for windows media player. Since the video is an overlay printscreen won't grab it since your video card injects the video in after the OS is done mucking around with things.

I believe ctrl-I or ctrl-P will give you a screencap. I'm a few hundred miles from my windows computer now though so I can't tell you for sure.

Jeff Eng · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 8:18 pm

We use a program at work called avidemux. It's a free video editing app for PC/MAC and Linux platforms and will allow you to take screen shots among other things.

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

Jeff

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