Grabbing a JPEG from HD Video

Hey all,

I have a Canon 5d Mark II and was wondering how to grab a frame from the video I shot and save it as a picture.

I tried using Image Browser and when I saved it as a still, it looked black and white with vertical lines in it.

Any idea?

Thanks.

I think in Zoombrowser Application there is an Edit Video function and I recall seeing a function to grab a frame.

I've Zoombrowser with good results. Does the MOV file play without the lines? There's no good reason your file should look Black and white or have lines running through it. Something is wrong if that's what you're getting.

robtaylor22 wrote in post #11580882
I've Zoombrowser with good results. Does the MOV file play without the lines? There's no good reason your file should look Black and white or have lines running through it. Something is wrong if that's what you're getting.

The video plays without the lines. Perfect quality.

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Joecar2000 - To do that very easily, you can use the free Avidemux - even if you never use it for anything else.

Install it, open and close it at least once before using it.

To extract stills - open Avidemux, and find your camera clip. If you can open the directory with it in on the Desktop, you can drag'n'drop the video file(s) into the Avidemux window - easier than Pathing each if you want stills from several clips of an event.

I think your 5D2 clips are H264/MOV at 1920 x 1080. When you drop the clip in, Avidemux will ask, "Do you want to change modes?" For this purpose, say No, and continue.

The video will open in a large image window. Make that more manageable by going to the bar, View > Zoom 1:2.

Use the Slider to find the section of the video you need to extract from.

Use the 2 centre Arrow-buttons in the line of 6 shown bottom-left of the dialog, to go forward-back frame-by-frame.

When you have the clearest frame possible, go to "File > Save > Save BMP Image". Click, and the window that opens lets you browse to your Destination directory.

While it also has the JPEG option there, I use BMP, as that's a far less "lossy" format than JPEG to work on, if you want to Crop, use Levels, Sharpen, etc.

You can (with JPEGs) also Extract multiple frames - use the A-marker button, click it at the start of the sequence. Then blue-arrow forward, say 10 frames, and click the B-marker button.

Then do "File > Save > Save Selection as JPEG Images". If you leave the markers where they are, look at the say, 10, JPEGs, and realise you like No.7, but it needs some "fixing-up" - you can go back and re-select that frame as a BMP, better to modify.

Dave.

I figured it out thanks to all of you. Thanks!