Do ya know????

[Ilovebigcats]

Does anyone know a free program that will take a video and break it into stills where you can use the video to capture good photos????

[Gerald Creasy]

Why can't you just use the Printscreen button?

If I have a video I want to grab a shot from I generally use that button and then paste itinto a graphics Program.

A program like Bink and Smacker can break an entire video into stills:

http://www.radgametools.com/default.htm

And VLC will let you grab and save a frame:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Both free.

[Ilovebigcats]

Thanks!!!

I tried the "print screen" idea but it was fuzzy. I need a good quality photo to print. This video files are huge but on the laptop they are fuzzy and pixelated when you hit pause.

[EagerBeaver]

Thanks!!!

I tried the "print screen" idea but it was fuzzy. I need a good quality photo to print. This video files are huge but on the laptop they are fuzzy and pixelated when you hit pause.

Unless you're shooting in true HD, video stills are going to be rather fuzzy, have scanlines or generally just not be up to snuff in photo quality.

[rjjunior]

windows movie maker lets to take stills from video.

[macgulley]

iMovie also lets you make stills from video.

[Ilovebigcats]

windows movie maker lets to take stills from video.

See... that's what I thought... I am SURE I have done it before but I can't figure it out. I lost a couple of features when I upgraded so I could edit the video size. I may have lost that ability.

[Mole_J]

In Windows Movie Maker, once you get the picture you want in the preview window, click on tools - Take Picture From Preview.

I just did the following picture as a test. here

The quality is dependent on the quality of the video you are using.