get last frame from movie (mpeg) and save as image file

[VingadoR]

Can i do this?

I have many video clips, and i want to make fade out effect at the end of
the clip, without editting all movie. I do this saving last frame as bitmap, make some effect, save this small animation as avi, encode to mpeg and
join with entire video clip...This works fine, but i don`t wanna expend so
much time extracting images, my plan is doing this (last frame extract) like batch encoding

Or any other ideia to fade out my movies, and not wait so much...

Thanks!

[sterno]

You could probably use avisynth to do this pretty easily. You'd have to use the mpeg2dec plugin to access the MPEG2, but avisynth should be able to give you the last frame and do fade-out while frameserving directly into tmpgenc. I think avisynth can also give you the number of frames in the clip, so you could actually use the same script for every clip but change the source filename.

I will point out that I haven't actually done this, but it should work. If you're not familiar with avisynth, this might actually a good project to start learning with - it does something you need, and it's not extremely complex. There are times when knowing avisynth lets you make a hard job easy.