frame capture from Quicktime?

[Erika Epstein]

I was sent some quicktime movies and I am wondering how to extract the individual frames. I have both mac and pc, see signature, but not quicktime pro.

I can do screen captures, but is there a way to extract all the individual frames?

thanks in advance!

[Anonymous]

I haven't test on mac, but it works on windows (should work on mac too). Just go to the frame and click+drag to the desktop. In windows I got a .dib (windows says its a bitmap image) and it opens in paint to save out as other formats

[Erika Epstein]

Michael,
What am I doing wrong?
I've tried both machines, right and left click, holding and draggging to desktop and nothing.

Thanks,

[Karl Ottenstein]

The dragging bit doesn't work on Mac. To get the paused frame on Lion with Quicktime X, you can just do an Edit > Copy (cmd-C) - and then open Preview and do File > New from Clipboard.

But it sounded like you wanted all of the individual frames as a sequence of image files.

iMovie lets you open a move, and then Share > Export Using QuickTime and then set the QuickTime export to "Movie to Image Sequence."

If you have QuickTime 7 Pro installed on your system (only QT X comes with Lion), it has the same export option.

Cheers,
Karl

[Anonymous]

I am on windows 7 with standard quicktime. It must be a 7 thing.

[Erika Epstein]

Hi Michael and Karl,
Thanks for your help. Unfortunately I am still not able break out the individual frames of the QT movies. On my mac with Lion, I the files are 3GP file format.

I've tried Karl's suggestion using imovie, but I am not getting the same options that he notes 😞.

I can't open the QT movie in imovie; dragging and dropping or FILE> open
most likely my lack of expertise with imovie.

[Eduardo Rolon]

You can try using screen capture:
1. Start the movie
2. Go in to Full Screen Mode
3. Scrub to the position.
4. on the keyboard press 'Command+Shift+3'

[Erika Epstein]

Hi Eduardo,
Not familiar with the term 'scrub', but it sounds like what I have been doing. I just stop the movie/move the progress bar and take a screen shot.
Thanks

[Eduardo Rolon]

Oops misread:

1.Download Quicktime 7 from apple at

http://support.apple.com/downloads/#quicktime

2. Open movie
3. Select Export and look for "Movie to Image Sequence"