Software for extracting frames

jeffy777 · June 8th, 2005, 05:35 PM

Can someone suggest some good software (preferably free) for saving frames from a video as pictures? Last night I made a video of a storm and I want to save some of the individual lightning strikes as .jpg's. Windows Movie Maker does it, but it makes the pictures too small and it doesn't display every single frame.

thanks images/smilies/smile.gif

TechZ · June 8th, 2005, 05:39 PM

Media Player Classic can do it, just pause it and say File-->Save Image

jeffy777 · June 8th, 2005, 05:41 PM

cool, I have it, I'll give it a shot images/smilies/wink.gif

EDIT:

Thanks man, it's works great images/smilies/thumbsup.gif

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What's a good program for making smooth animated gif's from video footage, like swek's avatar of James in the Honda Element, or Viper's avatar?

swek · June 8th, 2005, 06:05 PM

Ulead Gif animator is the best I've used so far. images/smilies/thumbsup.gif

jeffy777 · June 8th, 2005, 06:12 PM

thanks man!

swek · June 8th, 2005, 06:17 PM

No Problem. Feel free to ask me any further questions.

bihus · June 9th, 2005, 02:53 AM

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Originally Posted by jeffy777

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What's a good program for making smooth animated gif's from video footage, like swek's avatar of James in the Honda Element, or Viper's avatar?

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Originally Posted by swek

Ulead Gif animator is the best I've used so far. images/smilies/thumbsup.gif

Thanks for the question and for the answer... Have been thinking about making the same question, but was afraid that Renesis would come with "REPOST!! Do a search..." images/smilies/tease.gif

jeffy777 · June 9th, 2005, 05:08 AM

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Originally Posted by swek

No Problem. Feel free to ask me any further questions.

Ok, here is my first question:
How do you get the GIFs to play at normal speed? It seems that no matter what I set the frame rate the GIF is still slower than it should be.

swek · June 9th, 2005, 03:30 PM

I've never notice that. To test it I've just encoded an avi file to a gif. It had the exact same lengtht and played at the same speed as the original. images/smilies/dunno.gif

jeffy777 · June 9th, 2005, 10:06 PM

thanks for testing it swek. Maybe the video dimensions are too large on the avi file I'm using? It's 640 x 480. I'm going to try it on one of my other PCs and see if the results are similiar. If they are maybe I'll try shrinking down the video dimensions with virtualdub or something.

Stiggy · June 25th, 2005, 06:28 PM

(sry for bumping the thread but i need some help)
hey, i'm trying to create an avatar like swek's using the ulead gif animation program, but i have absolutely no idea how to do it images/smilies/wacko.gif

can anyone give me some sort of guidance?

thanks...

June 8th, 2005, 05:35 PM	#1
jeffy777 Joined: Feb 8th, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: US Age: 27 Posts: 5,662 Car: '04 Toyota Sienna, crippled people like vans.... Rep Power: 53	Software for extracting frames Can someone suggest some good software (preferably free) for saving frames from a video as pictures? Last night I made a video of a storm and I want to save some of the individual lightning strikes as .jpg's. Windows Movie Maker does it, but it makes the pictures too small and it doesn't display every single frame. thanks

June 8th, 2005, 05:39 PM	#2
TechZ Captain Internet Joined: Dec 19th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Bahrain Age: 24 Posts: 2,425 Car: Audi TT '08 Rep Power: 164	Media Player Classic can do it, just pause it and say File-->Save Image __________________ techzonline.net

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jeffy777 Joined: Feb 8th, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: US Age: 27 Posts: 5,662 Car: '04 Toyota Sienna, crippled people like vans.... Rep Power: 53	cool, I have it, I'll give it a shot EDIT: Thanks man, it's works great Next Question: What's a good program for making smooth animated gif's from video footage, like swek's avatar of James in the Honda Element, or Viper's avatar?

June 8th, 2005, 06:12 PM	#5
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jeffy777 Joined: Feb 8th, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: US Age: 27 Posts: 5,662 Car: '04 Toyota Sienna, crippled people like vans.... Rep Power: 53	thanks for testing it swek. Maybe the video dimensions are too large on the avi file I'm using? It's 640 x 480. I'm going to try it on one of my other PCs and see if the results are similiar. If they are maybe I'll try shrinking down the video dimensions with virtualdub or something. __________________ A man named Jeffy once said, "If laziness is craziness, then I've lost my marbles...and I don't feel like trying to find them."

June 8th, 2005, 06:05 PM	#4
swek Global Moderator Joined: May 19th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Hamburg, Germany Age: 26 Posts: 4,345 Car: Does a bicycle count? Rep Power: 47	Ulead Gif animator is the best I've used so far.

June 8th, 2005, 06:17 PM	#6
swek Global Moderator Joined: May 19th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Hamburg, Germany Age: 26 Posts: 4,345 Car: Does a bicycle count? Rep Power: 47	No Problem. Feel free to ask me any further questions.

June 9th, 2005, 03:30 PM	#9
swek Global Moderator Joined: May 19th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Hamburg, Germany Age: 26 Posts: 4,345 Car: Does a bicycle count? Rep Power: 47	I've never notice that. To test it I've just encoded an avi file to a gif. It had the exact same lengtht and played at the same speed as the original.

June 25th, 2005, 06:28 PM	#11
Stiggy Joined: Jun 21st, 2005 Last Online: September 12th, 2005 Posts: 27 Rep Power: 0	(sry for bumping the thread but i need some help) hey, i'm trying to create an avatar like swek's using the ulead gif animation program, but i have absolutely no idea how to do it can anyone give me some sort of guidance? thanks... __________________ JC: "This, is a car programme. There will be no cushions. There will be no rag rolling. No one will sing and at the end of the series no one will have a recording contract. This, is our new base, and this is our purpose-built test track. There are no traffic jams here, well, apart from this one, and no bus lanes either. This, is Top Gear."

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