Photo from Video??

[nedcampbell]

What’s the best way to take a “snapshot” out of a video to make an editable photo? I use Filmora and Photomatix mainly. Thx.

 

[FoxhallGH]

Filmora will let you to do this ... Have a look at the playback 'screen' at the top right of the Filmora window. Play the vid' you want to take the snap from. Pause it and select the frame using the frame-forward / frame-back buttons at thre bottom left of that playback screen. When you have the frame you want to turn into a still, just click the 'camera' icon (between the mic' and the speaker icons) on that toolbar. It will then create the snap as an image in the media area top-left of the Filmora window.

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[nedcampbell]

It saves it as a PNG. Can it be saved as a JPG?

 

[FoxhallGH]

Simple to convert using Microsoft Paint ...

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[nedcampbell]

Thank you. So helpful!

 

[davemorts]

What’s the best way to take a “snapshot” out of a video to make an editable photo? I use Filmora and Photomatix mainly. Thx.

I use Cyberlink DVD, it has a screen grab function.

 

[Ren57]

What’s the best way to take a “snapshot” out of a video to make an editable photo? I use Filmora and Photomatix mainly. Thx.

Also VCL media player (it's free) will let you take a snap-shot from the video and in the options you can choose JPG or PNG....

 

[AMann]

I know it’s chincy, but if the photo is for low resolution purposes like email, text or web posting only, I just take a screenshot of the frame I want from the video while watching it on my smartphone and crop out the unwanted parts. Works pretty well, even with video posted on YT!

 

[Cymruflyer]

I do that too, works well.

 

[FoxhallGH]

Also VCL media player (it's free) will let you take a snap-shot from the video and in the options you can choose JPG or PNG....

Been using VLC Player for years and never knew that! Thanks ...

 

[charliesRig]

I'm realy old school. after I set down my pager
I'll do a screen shot (Ctrl+PrtSc) and past to MSpaint
then save it as Jpg
.

 

[Ren57]

Been using VLC Player for years and never knew that! Thanks ...

VLC media player is really a great tool considering that it's free. In the tools menu you can also adjust the colour (saturation) Brightness, contrast and gamma. Obviously, once you've got all that sorted in the video and then take a snap-shot it saves the image with the settings that you've changed. It's like having a cut-down version of a post processing program. Also you can render video to a whole host of video types.