How To Convert A Single Video Image to PNG/BMP

[cornemuse]

I was watching a video "Framing John Deleorean" & paused it at a (single frame?) image that I would really like to convert to a png/bmp/jpg (still) image. I wrote down location (1:46:19-not exactly this example, but this format). This was last nite, I have not tried yet, but I'm sure I can locate exact location with DVDShrink, etc. It was on screen for fraction of a second, if it was longer I could maybe get a ["printscrn"] of it & create an image. It was just sheer chance I paused where I did.

What to do??

-corne-

[tangled]

i'm pretty sure almost any video player can do frame by frame, for example in VLC it's "E" for next frame (if you missed a frame go back a second and do it again)

[manono]

In MPC-HC, pause the video just before the frame you want, go CTRL/Right Arrow to advance a frame at a time to the exact frame. Then go File->Save Image and take your pick of BMP, PNG, or JPG.

[LigH.de]

If it opens in VirtualDub2: File - Export - Single image...

[lordsmurf]

VirtualDub works best.
Go to the frame you want, Video > copy frame to clipboard
Then paste into Photoshop/etc.

Players like VLC tend to blur/etc the image, VirtualDub gives original file quality frame.

[LigH.de]

But the original VirtualDub by Avery Lee can only read AVI. VirtualDub2 supports more source formats due to an ffmpeg based input library.

[cornemuse]

I have MPC, I'll try it. I ripped a very short clip with DVDShrink & used 'WinDVD'. kept curser on pause & enter starts clip. After about 10 times I got what I wanted:


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Old timers might recognize it!! I never new it was in the movie, , , ,

[LigH.de]

Marty?

[cornemuse]

In "Framing John Deleorean", they used a clip from 'Back to the Future'. Was when they either sent Einstien (the dog) back or when he returned. The lic plate came off & spun like a dervish, too fast to actually read.

edit: Yeah Marty McFly - In a Delorean. When they 1st wrote the movie script, it was a converted refrigerator to be the machine, but Deloreans coke bust happened, script was changed to the car, , , ,

[LigH.de]

The German scientist Albert Einstein was written with e-i. And so is the dog as well, I bet. Looks weird?