Appleâs new Live Photos feature on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus is really cool, but if you donât want to share them as full Live Photos or just want them as stills, you can easily convert them in just a few steps.
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Live Photos are being touted as one of those must-have features and we have explained how to get fairly good results with them. That said, Live Photos have a few caveats. For one, they take up a great deal more space than traditional stills. You may also not want to share the whole thing. You might simply want to share it as a still photo and discard the rest.
Converting a Live Photo to a still photo is actually a really easy process, which can be accomplished in just a few short steps.
First, open the Live Photo in the Photos app and then tap âEditâ in the upper-right corner.
Now, youâll see your Live Photo presented as a still. This is how it will look when you convert it, which you can do by tapping the icon in the lower-left corner in landscape mode, and upper-left corner in portrait.
Once you tap the Live Photos icon, it will turn white meaning and you can then tap the âDoneâ button to save it as a still photo.
If you want to revert the photo back to a Live Photo, you can either tap the âRevertâ button, or simply tap the Live Photos icon again and then tap âDoneâ.
Thatâs it then. Once you exit the edit mode, you can share your new still photo as you like with whomever you want and it will only be the single photo rather than the entire Live Photo file.
This means the file should be significantly smaller in size and wonât take up as much room on your device, and will thus be easier to share as well.
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Every video or animation you see on your television, computer, phone, tablet or even at the movie theater is made up from a succession of still images. These images are then played one after the other several times a second which fools your eye into thinking the object is moving. The quicker the images are played, the smoother and more fluid the movement looks.
Most movies and TV programs are filmed at around 24-30 images per second, each individual image is called a frame which is where you see the term frames per second (FPS). A video file on a computer simply stores all the frames together and plays them in order, and the total frames stored for a typical movie reaches into the hundreds of thousands. If you want to capture an image of one or two frames itâs quite easy and you simply pause the video and press the Print Screen key.
If you want to extract a succession or range of frames or even all frames from a short video clip, capturing the images one at a time is incredibly inefficient and time consuming. For that purpose you need a program that can extract however many video frames you want and save them to image files automatically, like jpg or png. Here are 5 ways to do it.
1. Free Video to JPG Converter
Like all DvdVideoSoft products, Free Video to JPG Converter is bundled with Opencandy adware which needs opting out of during installation. This program will save frames from a video file to a sequence of JPG images. There are four extraction methods to choose from, extract an image every number of frames, extract an image every number of seconds, take a total number of frames from the video or extract every single frame.
Add any number of video files by using the Add files button or drag and drop, most video formats are supported like MP4, MKV, AVI, VOB, WMV, MOV, FLV and etc. Set your extract criteria and optionally a different save location to the default, then start the process. Extraction times are reasonable and will differ depending on video length and how many frames are being extracted.
There are a few issues with one or two of the preset values or if you enter a custom value in the frame boxes. For instance, the total frames from a video setting of 10 doesnât produce an expected equal split of 10 frames across the whole video. Itâs still a useful tool though and worth checking out because Free Video to JPG Converter is still faster than extracting images in real time.
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Tip: To avoid the Opencandy adware during install run the installer with the /nocandy switch. Either run the installer from a CMD window with the switch or right click on the installer > Create shortcut. Then right click on the shortcut > Properties and add [space]/nocandy to the end of the line in the Target box.
Launch the shortcut and the setup will install without any adware being offered. Still be careful during install in case DvdVideoSoft change from Opencandy to other adware methods later on.
2. VLC Media Player
VLC is a popular open source media player that can save sequences of images from any video you choose to play. This can be achieved through the main user interface while more advanced users can use Command Prompt. First weâll deal with the user interface method.
1. If you havenât already, Download VLC media player and install or Download Portable VLC media player and extract to a folder of your choice.
2. Open VLC, go to Preferences (Ctrl+P) and click on Show All Settings at the bottom left.
3. Expand Video > Filters in the tree and click on Scene Filter. Set the image format (png/bmp/jpg etc), the path to save the files (leave blank to save to your Pictures folder) and the recording ratio. The ratio will save an image every xx number of frames, so if your video is 30 frames per second, a value of 150 will save an image every 5 seconds.
Tip: If youâre not 100% sure of the videoâs frame rate, play it in VLC, press Ctrl+J and look for the frame rate number. Using multiples of that value will give you a recording ratio in seconds.
4. Click on Filters in the Advanced Preferences tree (donât expand it) and tick the Scene video filter box near the top right, press Save.
5. Play the video file and the images will automatically start saving. They will continue to save until you press stop, even if you pause or skip through the video.
Note: If after following these steps images are not being created, close VLC after step 4 and re-open it, then play the video. For some reason more recent versions of VLC do not recognize the scene filter is enabled until you close and re-open the program.
Once you are done saving frames the option needs to be turned off again or it will do the same with every video you play. Follow steps 1 and 3 above then untick the Scene video filter box. The biggest drawback with VLC is that you have to leave the video running while taking the images, for this reason we recommend VLC for shorter clips only unless you plan to watch the video anyway.
3. Extract Images with VLC from the Command Line Warband the last days siege.
Using the Command line to extract image frames with VLC is similar to the GUI method which will save the specified number of frames. Open a Command Prompt and change the directory to where vlc.exe is located, then type in the command below:
vlc.exe âpathtovideoâ âvideo-filter=scene âvout=dummy âstart-time=300 âstop-time=600 âscene-ratio=250 âscene-path=âpathtosaveimagesâ vlc://quit
Pathtovideo is the name and path of the video file, âscene-path is the target folder for the images while âscene-ratio is the frame save interval. An advantage over the GUI method is the ability to use âstart-time and âstop-time to start and stop saving frames at specific times (in seconds). Leave those switches out if you want to play the whole video. Refer to the complete list of commands at the Videolan website.
VLC will run and start the playback but without the screen. Once finished, it will automatically exit.
4. VirtualDub
VirtualDub is a video processing tool that seems to have been around for ever, but itâs still a popular and useful program. The main issue with VirtualDub is lack of support out of the box for opening video files like MKV, MP4 and MOV, but this problem can be rectified by installing the FFMpeg plugin pack. Hereâs how to extract video frames to images with VirtualDub.
1. Download VirtualDub 32-bit version and also the VirtualDub FFMpeg Input Plugin from Sourceforge. Extract both zip archives.
2. Go to the VirtualdubFFMpegPluginPlugins32 folder, copy FFInputDriver.vdplugin and the ffdlls folder, then paste both into the VirtualDubPlugins32 folder.
3. Run Virtualdub.exe and open the video file by using File > Open or drag and drop. If you wish to save every frame of a small video file to images, skip to step 5.
4. Go to Video > Frame rate (Ctrl+R) and select Decimate by, then enter a number to save an image every xx number of frames. The No change option at the top will tell you how many frames per second the current video uses. Click OK.
5. Click on the File menu > Export > Image sequence. Enter the filename to save as, the folder to save into and the output format of BMP, TGA, JPEG or PNG. Then click OK and VirtualDub will begin to process the video.
If the method of extracting every set number of frames is what you are looking for, VirtualDub is by far the best tool to use because itâs incredibly fast to extract the images and much faster than VLC and Free Video to JPG Converter.
An additional option in VirtualDub is setting a specific range inside the video itself so only images between the two points are saved.
Before saving at step 5, use the slider and frame controls to set the start range and press the Home key or selection start button (in the red box above), move the slider to the end of the range and press the selection end button or the End key. Now when you save the images, only the selected frames will be saved between the start and end selection points.
5. FFMpeg
FFMpeg is a framework for encoding, muxing, transcoding, streaming and playing video files, and is the backbone of a vast array of video converters and players. It runs only from the command line so is better suited to experienced users. FFMpeg should handle just about any video file you throw at it. Hereâs a simple command line argument.
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ffmpeg -i videofile.mpg -r 1 image-%04d.jpeg
The -i is the input video file with path and the jpeg filename simply saves jpegs (you can also use png, bmp, tiff etc) with the name and 4 place holding numbers, e.g. image-0001. The -r command is the frames to capture and the reverse of how you would expect it to work. 1 will save a frame every second while 0.5 will save every 2 seconds, 0.2 every 5 seconds, 0.1 every 10 seconds, 0.0167 for 60 seconds and etc. Use 1/seconds in Windows Calculator to get the ratio you need.
More advanced usage can add a starting point in the video file with the -ss command before -i, while -t can also be used to add a duration. Both use an [hours:]minutes:seconds argument.
ffmpeg -ss 04:00 -t 03:00 -i videofile.mpg -r 0.033 image-%04d.jpeg
The above command will start at 4 minutes in, then save a .jpg at 30 second intervals for 3 minutes.
The are hundreds of commands and you really need to read the FFMpeg documentation to understand how it can be fully utilized from the command line and in scripts.
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Final Note: There are obviously other tools around that can do a similar task, Batch Video to image Extractor would have been included but itâs quite unstable and has been discontinued by the developer. Daum PotPlayer and GOM Player are media players that work in a similar way to VLC, meaning you have to play the video in real time to get the selected frames.
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Is there an option to take a picture from a live video and broadcast images in Live?
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Oliver1 month ago
Good stuff right there
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VLC is complex, Reply
Free Video to JPG Converter is slow, VirtualDub is the bestâ¦
The Max Million1 year ago
Really good advice, I had to convert 2 Months of CCTV footage into a time-lapse. Option one saved me lots of work on Premier! Just set the computer working and a couple of days later I had a huge folder of images. Used an astronomy program called PIPP to stitch them all together into a movie for a client. They loved it.
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Perfectâ¦so very quick and lightweight/easy to use.
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Bruce2 years ago
You can use video-photos.com to extract frames from inside your browser (nothing is uploaded to the server). No software needs to be downloaded for this.
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Thank you so much. This tool is really useful, super simple and easy to use, no need to install anything and work instantly. Kudos for you.
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jork1 year ago
It only does one frame at a time. Who needs help doing that?
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How do you take one frame at a time?
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David2 years ago
Thanks for the quick reminder. I had forgotten how I did it years ago. Reply
VirtualDub is so simple to use and so quick. :)
Yeah this is really outdated because I followed it to a t with VLC and it didnât work because half of it is no longer there in the program.
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HAL9000 Author2 years ago
The VLC guide is completely up to date and if I took new screenshots in the latest VLC 2.2.6, they would look exactly the same. You are not quite following the steps correctly.
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Where is the default folder where it starts saving the images too? I donât know if what Iâm doing is correct or not. Also is there a way of knowing that itâs working?
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HAL9000 Author2 years ago
Thatâs mentioned in step 3, the default folder is Pictures.
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Thanks my friend, I missed that.
Works great. Thanks
Karl10 months ago
Iâm also having trouble with the VLC captures. Iâve tried restarting it after saving the settings, Iâve checked in pictures, and Iâve tried sending it to a different directory but I still donât have any screen captures showing up. Iâm pretty sure Iâve followed the steps but I must have gone wrong somewhere.
For step 4, is that just hitting save in the same Scene Filters window where you enter the file type, save directory, and ratio? Or is there some other place and Iâve just missed actually turning it on?
No, for Step #4 click ON Filters in Advanced Prefs, DONâT expand it. There will be a number of checkboxes on the right, check the Scene video filter box near the top right and press Save. Then re-open VLC and play the video.
Iâve updated the article slightly to hopefully make things easier to follow.
Nick10 months ago
I also followed the VLC method to a tee and it did not work⦠Reply
It looks like its writing files somewhere because of how slow its going but when I look in the output folderâ¦nothing
After turning on the scene filter (step #4) close VLC and reopen it before playing the video. I had to do that when testing just now or the images were not being saved.
Remember, if you donât set a path the images will save to the (My) Pictures folder.
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GoofProg A.S.2 years ago
I made a solution to creating ânâ amount of screen shots in a video file.
First I had to write a bit a code and extract the duration of the video. I converted that into seconds and divided it by the number of shots I want to get my intervals. I also made a script that takes those intervals and takes the snap shot of the media at a fixed time. The solution takes a lot longer than video to jpg converter.
~Linux henchman 4 life!
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Amazing, Reply
I especially like the 3rd option. You are awesome!
Miracle Max2 years ago
VLC dropped frames but ffmpeg worked. For the newer version (from the documentation):
3.3 How do I encode movie to single pictures?# TOC
Use:
ffmpeg -i movie.mpg movie%d.jpg
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anyframe is very easy to use but consumes too much data
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BG Davis2 years ago
The information you have provided for VLC must be very, very old. There are a number of items that simply donât exist. For example the image (which Iâm not able to paste here) that you have provided above, as appearing in the Scene filter, does not exist. The only option is to simply check the Scene Filter box.
There is something vaguely similar in the Video section but itâs so different that the explanation and instructions provided here are useless. Also please be aware that Virtual Dub, which used to be very useful, is now filled with adware and malware. I had to remove it from my computer and it was hard to get rid of all the stuff they had installed without my permission. Mov File To JpegReply
The information is up to date and I can follow the instructions with the latest VLC without any issue. You are obviously not following correctly. The window for the scene video filter shown in the image above is in VLC 2.2.4 and where the guide says it is.
If you have a version of VirtualDub with adware, you did not download it from the SourceForge link provided. The real program contains no adware or malicious code of any kind and is open source and portable. Please recheck your sources.
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charlie2 years ago
Took me a while to find the typo in the command line version of the vlc.exe command above. It turns out that cutting and pasting the text provided above results in some very mysterious errors. The reason is that the quotation marks in the web page are some unicode smart quotes not unix worthy ascii quotation marks. They of course look like quote marks in your terminal so you donât realize what the problem is.
vlc.exe âpathtovideoâ âvideo-filter=scene âvout=dummy âstart-time=300 âstop-time=600 âscene-ratio=250 âscene-path=âpathtosaveimagesâ vlc://quit
anyhow thank you for this. You might want to change your command line listed above to UTF-8
also I never did get the VLC gui to work as you described.
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For those who are interested, I made a free to use tool which allows you to extract frames from local MP4, OGG and WEBM videos, inside your browser! It runs on Javascript, so no uploading is required.
It can be found here: video2jpeg.com
Beware that Safari does not support OGG and WEBM. A YouTube feature may be added in the future.
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Toby3 years ago
Hello there,
I am a cofounder of anyframe.net which is a tool to extract images from your videos. We support youtube videos and your own videos. List of supported formats is growing. Our tool runs in cloud with no installation needed.
Could you please add a review of anyframe.net ?
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Just tried it. After registering, it works as claimed.
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Dr.V.Balaji3 years ago
Thank you for your wonderful knowledge sharing. I just started take video shots using this technique successfully. best wishes
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Hello, thank you very much for the very helpful tutorial!
I tried to do this with VirtualDub, but sadly got a problem.
When I try to export an Image sequence with VirtualDub, I always get the error:
âOutput settings must be 16/24/32-bit RGB, uncompressed in order to save a TARGA, JPEG, or PNG sequence.â
I didnât insert any compression, I even moved all newer plugins I once installed (except FFmpeg Input plugin) into a different folder, because when I googled for that error, someone said a plugin might interfere with it, and thus the error message occurs (although it doesnât resemble what the real error is).
I want to export as PNG, I checked/unchecked the compression option, but as it wasnât successful, I also tested JPEG in 100 and 90 quality and I tested TGA, but to no avail, nothing works to export as image sequence for me, I still get that error message.
Any idea, why?
I can without a problem export as GIF though, just not as image sequence.
Thank you in advance for any help!
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Rick Cheney3 years ago
Thank you very much for the great instructions. There is one typo that threw me off for a second, under 2. VLC Media Player, Step 3, it reads: â3. Expand Video > Filersâ and should read: â3. Expand Video > Filtersâ
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Fixed! Thanksâ¦;)
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alec Jacobs3 years ago
Hello, Reply
Free vid to jpg converter brings high & low res footage to same res ie 96dpi Will any other method give a better resolution ? Thanks Alec Leave a Reply
I'm new at this. I imported video from my camera to my desktop. Then, tried to import the video from the desktop to Windows Movie Maker. It wouldn't let me do it. After importing my videos from the camera to my desktop I noted that the 'File Type' was .MOV. MSN Help website says WMM DOES support .MOV files. WMM Help says .MOV is NOT supported and to convert the file into a supported file type. How do I do that???
NOTE: I am new at this and need step by step instructions. Thank you for your help. MOV files cause issues in Movie Maker..best bet is to try and convert to a compatible format like WMV.
The following freeware can do the conversion: Volunteer J - MS-MVP - Digital Media Experience - Notice_This is not tech support_I am a volunteer - Solutions that work for me may not work for you - ***Proceed at your own risk*** Hi RIP1,(FWIW..it's always a good idea to create a System Restore point before installing software or updates) Format Factory http://www.pcfreetime.com/ (FWIW..when installing..you may want to uncheck 'all' of the boxes on the final screen) First..after downloading and installing Format Factory..you may want to open the program and left click the 'Option' button on the toolbar and select an 'Output Folder' / Apply / OK. (this is where you will find your files after they are converted) Drag/drop your .mov video clips onto the main screen.. Select 'All to WMV' / OK.. Click..Start..on the toolbar.. That should do it.. Good luck.. I understand that you are looking for more information about how to disable Live Photos and view them on a Windows PC. I'm happy to provide some help for this issue. When you import Live Photos to your Windows PC, it imports both a still image and a .mov video file. You can use the still images the same as you would before. You can learn more about how to import photos to your Windows PC here: Import photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support Additionally, this article explains Live Photos and how to disable them: Take and edit Live Photos - Apple Support
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities. Cheers!
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