Comments on: How to capture and extract still images from video

By: Conz

Conz — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:55:06 +0000

Thanks for this very nice and awesome image grabber.It is helpful.

By: mariah

mariah — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:17:35 +0000

I cannot find the camera on Windows Movie Maker either.

Please help!!

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:36:10 +0000

I accidentally found a way to do this with Windows 7 when I was first playing around with Windows 7 a week or two ago. However, I could not remember how I did it until I searched here and elsewhere. Apparently, Windows 7 has a feature called a snipping tool. If you pause the frame (YouTube works) and search for “snipping tool” on the Start menu using the Search for programs and files box, you should see it appear above. Then, click and drag with your mouse over the image and save in whatever format you want.

I hope this helps.

By: Diane F

Diane F — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:40:32 +0000

Hello, Chris. You are a life saver. Couldn’t get this to work to save my life. Thanks to your great article, I now know of a program that does exactly what I need and doesn’t bog my system down.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:40:11 +0000

I cannot find that camera in Movie Maker anywhere… I am using Windows Live Movie Maker with Windows 7. Help!

By: warrior

warrior — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:17:44 +0000

printscreen button pressing and ctrl+v pressing on the video pause image gives you a black screen on any application. how to get the image is the problem.

By: Prince Ash

Prince Ash — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:45:17 +0000

U can also take an image from any video format by playing the video & pausing it on the moment ur image appears (the scene that u wish to capture), then, after pausing the video, just press the PRINT SCREEN button given on ur keyboard (it’s usually near the BACKSPACE button). Then, open paint or any image editing application & press CTRL+V n ur image will get pasted there alongwith the entire screen, then u can edit it as u want using any other application or paint itself.
Hope this helps

By: robert

robert — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:08:50 +0000

Windows 7 doesn’t have the image capture feature that vista and xp did. No wonder apple overtook them.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:43:58 +0000

Does it make any difference what type of digital camera you use to capture a still photo from the video?

By: Kamran

Kamran — Fri, 28 May 2010 05:46:40 +0000

Thanks, I also use VLC media player to extract still images from video.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:45:20 +0000

I still found Image Grab to be much better then Windows Movie Maker. It gives you more control over the picture control. Plus for some reason with WMM I kept getting a snapshot that was much smaller then the original video. With Image Grab they are the same size.

By: Gloria

Gloria — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:22:42 +0000

Chris, I LOVE YOU!!!

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:32:24 +0000

The command line instructions for saving the frames of a video as a sequence of images from VLC are found here…

http://wiki.videolan.org/Video_Output

…which proves it’s indeed possible. Which leads to the following:

hubpages.com/hub/making-screencaps-with-vlc

download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-9828117-12.html

By: Rose-Marie Ullman

Rose-Marie Ullman — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:43:16 +0000

There are no navigation keys below the picture, nor is there a “deinterlace” window.

By: DeLane

DeLane — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:24:39 +0000

Windows 7 Movie Maker is retarded…I Cannot find where you can capture a still frame!! grrr?!!