Creating a storyboard from a video file

[Snover]

I am looking for a program that will take either keyframes, or frames every X milliseconds, from a video and put them all on a single image file in a storyboard grid. I have seen this done before and would imagine that such a program exists, but I have been thoroughly unable to find such a thing. I have searched Google for many, many, many different permeutations of words like "video to image" "storyboard" "keyframes" "album" "photo album", etc., and the closest thing I've come up with is a program called FrameShots, which takes frames every X milliseconds and saves them as individual files. Even having a second program that takes these images, resizes them, and puts them into a storyboard format would work. Does ANYONE know of such a program? I'm at a loss for where else to look.

Thank you very much for any points in the right direction.

[BJ_M]

virtualdub

[Snover]

I have used VirtualDub for a long time and it does not do what I'm asking to do. Did I not explain what I need properly?

[BJ_M]

I am looking for a program that will take either keyframes, or frames every X milliseconds, from a video and put them all on a single image file in a storyboard grid.

v-dub can take x number of frames per second or keyframes and save them as image files -- you can use xnview to make up a proof sheet of these ...

you can also manually scan through any video file and use shift+2 to snapshot the current frame ...

ive done this many times for storyboards --- except i use the snap shot frames in a storyboard program ..

[Snover]

Hi,
I'm not sure what option you are using to do this within VirtualDub, but I think that with XnView, I should be able to make it all come together (using the frame capture program I previously mentioned, or an AviSynth script). Thank you for your help!

[BJ_M]

it is called "decimate" in virtualdub and is found under

video->frame rate -> frame rate conversion

a little misleading in its location ..

shift+1 and shift+2 are just commands in v-dub to snapshot source or output frame

[Snover]

I did find that, but when I went to "Save image sequence" VirtualDub made it appear that it was going to save all frames from the video file. Actually running it, however, I noticed that it did save just the number that I specified. Funny. Thanks!