Extract Jpeg From Avi File

[paulfr]

I have a new Casio digital camera that takes 60 second

video clips. I love using it. When I watch the playback

on my computer, there are many frames that make a

great photo and that I would like to turn into a jpeg file.

Does anyone know what shareware, freeware or commercial

SW that will do this ?? My camera makes AVI video files.

Thanks in advance

[phazey]

play the movie,

press "alt-prt sc" (print screen) when you see a nice pic.

Load up MS paint (start/programs/accessories)

press ctrl-v (paste)

and there you go, save, whipe hands on pants, and repeat.

no software download either

[stumonster]

press "alt-prt sc" (print screen) when you see a nice pic.

make sure you pause the video before taking a screen grab

this method will grab a snapshot of the whole screen and put it onto the clipboard ready for you to paste it in to your image manipulator of choice, though I use paint with a screen grab. after you have pasted it into paint, save it as a bitmap (.bmp). I then open the image using irfanview , www.irfanview.com (free), the drag a rectangle around the bit I want to keep, then select edit --> crop then save as a jpg,jpeg. remember to delete the bitmap ( bmp) afterwards.

just bear in mind that the resolution of your video is not the same as the camera, so these pictures will be ok to email but not to print.

[Firefoxx]

Actually, printscreen can't capture any overlay screens, which is what media player uses to show video. In other words, what you will get is a very nice pic of media player with a black box inside. No video.

If your casio captures movies in mpeg, you can use powerdvd or windvd to take screenshots. If it captures in AVI (which can mean tons of different codecs), then you can use media player *CLASSIC* to take a capture. You can download it (with codecs) at www.k-litecodecpack.com (the mega codec pack). Press F5 to capture. I recommend this since media player classic is pretty good at playing nearly everything that media player can't.

Another way is to use a proprietary screen capture program like hypersnap DX, but that's overkill.

[lopburi3]

Actually, printscreen can't capture any overlay screens, which is what media player uses to show video. In other words, what you will get is a very nice pic of media player with a black box inside. No video.

Well I just did it and it works fine (photo inside media player) using exactly the same type Casio AVI poster will use with current Media Player.

Media Player, use shuttle control to find frame, hit print scrn, open PhotoElf/editor, right click paste clipboard to main image. Image is there.

For anyone doing printing recommend this PhotoElf program (I know the name is not the most professional sounding) as it is very easy to use and offers a lot of control. Not free but good value.

[paulfr]

Thank you for the help fellows.

Worked just fine.

Windows Media Player plays the AVI after a codec

download.

Play, Pause, Print-Scr

Open Photoshop

Paste

Crop and Save

Works great.

Thanks again.

Paul

[benthai98]

This is slightly off topic but...

On my latest trip back home to Aust I picked up a very sexy (even if slightly outdated) apple blueberry ibook. It's a great machine but I've recently discovered that there is no inbuilt media player that can handle *.avi files. I'm running mac OS 9.2.2 and have a whole heap of AVI files i'd really liek to watch.

Anyone got any ideas?

[stumonster]

what sort of avi's? divX?

you could try installing the divX codecs for mac

http://www.divxmovies.com/codec/

[nicbasd]

I have used Videocharge Studio for it.

Very good soft for extract image from video!

You can extract all image, or select some images and save to JPG!