How To Capture Notwithstanding Frame Images From A Video Clip

I ain a point-and-shoot digital photographic television set camera which also shoots movies. As a novice photographer, I grapple inward taking indoor flush pictures. Finally, I resort to commencement making a film amongst the camera, followed past times capturing even together with therefore frames from the film file. This post service is business office one of a 2-part serial to explicate the latter.

In this post, nosotros become over how to capture, using a GUI tool, a unmarried frame from a film file. Part 2 presents the ffmpeg ascendence to automate the video snapshot of multiple even together with therefore frames.

VLC together with Totem are 2 GUI-based video players which tin stimulate got video snapshots. The residue of this post service focuses on VLC.

To extract a unmarried even together with therefore frame from a video file:

1. Open VLC together with play the video file.
2. Optionally, click the Pause push to freeze the playback at the frame of which y'all desire to stimulate got a snapshot.
   

   You don't stimulate got to interruption the playback to capture the frame. However, past times doing so, y'all know precisely what is beingness captured.

3. Take a snapshot past times pressing the Hotkey combination Shift-S.

   Alternatively, click the Take Snapshot pick inward the Video menu.
   

By default, the video snapshot is saved to a time-stamped PNG file inward your Home Pictures directory, for instance, /home/peter/Pictures/vlcsnap-2014-05-19-19h42m22s243.png.

You tin customize the name, the location, together with the epitome format of the painting file.

To customize,

1. Select the Preferences pick inward the Tools menu.
   
2. Click Video to convey upward the Video snapshots settings.
   
3. Change the Video snapshots settings.
   • Directory

     Specify the directory for asset the output painting files.

   • Prefix

     Specify the prefix which is the commencement business office of the output file name.

     $T is a exceptional variable that y'all tin insert into the prefix, e.g., "vlcsnap-$T-". To generate the file name, VLC replaces $T amongst the elapsed timestamp of when the snapshot was taken relative to the get of the video. For instance, the file refer vlcsnap-00_05_37-2014-05-19-19h42m22s243.png indicates that the snapshot was taken at 0 hr v minutes 37 seconds into the video.

   • Sequential numbering

     By default, Sequential Numbering is disabled. VLC appends the file creation timestamp to the prefix. For instance, the file vlcsnap-00_05_37-2014-05-19-19h42m22s243.png was created at 7:42 pm on May 19, 2014.

     If Sequential Numbering is enabled, the creation timestamp is replaced past times a sequential numbering scheme, starting at one (vlcsnap-00_05_37-00001.png).

   • Format

     Choose either PNG or JPG.

4. Restart the VLC application.

Part 2 introduces the ffmpeg ascendence to automate the video capture of multiple even together with therefore frames.

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