extract photograph from video

[blu-by-u]

Took a video and now decide to extract 1 of the many frames for printing. Is this possible?

[Otto]

Re: extract photograph from video

You'd probably need video-editing software to do that, but bear in mind the resolution of video frames is substantially less than full-frame so you will not get the same quality of print compared to a normal still photo.

[Jim Ford]

Re: extract photograph from video

IIRC you can do it with the free editing programs Virtualdub or Avidemux (Google is your friend!). You can also take a 'snapshot' with Faststone media player, and probably Irfanview - both also free.

Jim

[OM USer]

Re: extract photograph from video

Olympus Viewer3 will do it. Its as simple as pausing the video and clicking on extract still. Will that work with your E-330(?) videos?

[Otto]

Re: extract photograph from video

So it is! I had no idea OV3 had video editing capabilities ...

[Ross the fiddler]

Re: extract photograph from video

So it is! I had no idea OV3 had video editing capabilities ...

Not many seem to give much credit or thought to using OV3, but it does do a fair bit really, even if I can do more with Capture One for raw processing, I still use OV3 mostly & still capture from video is one of the things it does fine.

[blu-by-u]

Re: extract photograph from video

Not many seem to give much credit or thought to using OV3, but it does do a fair bit really, even if I can do more with Capture One for raw processing, I still use OV3 mostly & still capture from video is one of the things it does fine.

I have yet to try that. Now that you mention it, I did hear something like that when the OV3 was launch. Le me go try it out.

Olympus Viewer3 will do it. Its as simple as pausing the video and clicking on extract still. Will that work with your E-330(?) videos?

E-330 can do video??

[xperia]

Re: extract photograph from video

This would work better if the framerate of the video is higher. A higher framerate is essential when doing moving video still extraction. If the video is slow moving or still- you're in luck.

[Ulfric M Douglas]

Re: extract photograph from video

If you can play your video on your computer, any decent player will be happy to extract single frames.
My personal preferences are Gom and VLC : very easy.
You don't need to use a video editor.