Start with the result you want

A video contains many more pictures than you usually need. Before extracting anything, decide whether you want a cover image, a sequence of references, or an overview of the whole clip. That choice gives you a much better starting point than exporting every frame.

Start Free with a small number of images from one video. Switch to Capture a frame for a specific moment without reopening the video. Interval sampling and contact sheets are available to explore with Pro sample videos.

Create your first selection

  1. Open Video frame extractor and choose a local video, or select Try a sample.
  2. Set the start and end time to the part you care about. Shortening this range reduces waiting and unnecessary results.
  3. In Auto extract, set Number of frames from 1 to 12. Start with 6 evenly spaced candidates.
  4. Select Extract frames. Open promising images and uncheck the ones you do not need.
  5. Choose JPG or PNG, export size and applicable quality. Download an individual image or the selected images as a ZIP.

Choose JPG or PNG deliberately

JPG is a good first choice for photographic material and smaller downloads. Its quality setting trades size for additional compression. PNG is useful when you want to avoid another lossy image encoding step, particularly for text or graphics. It can produce much larger files.

Original-size export keeps the decoded frame dimensions. It does not sharpen a blurry source or create detail absent from the video. Resizing smaller is often useful for reference sheets and web illustrations.

Keep a record of where each image came from

Retain the generated timestamp in the filename. It makes it easier to return to the same place in your editor. In compatible preview mode this is an approximate browser seek time, not a verified source timestamp. Include the optional JSON manifest when you need a machine-readable record of the selected frames and export settings.

If the browser struggles, reduce the selected time range or image count. A small compressed video can still expand into a large amount of image data.

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