Video to Photos with an automator acton

I don't know what you are using for playback but I don't know any video player that has a built in command to take screen captures. therefore the only way would be to pay video in full screen and take screen captures using built in OS X screen capture command. You can make the following workflow

1. run apple script

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on run {input, parameters}
delay 10
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "#" using command down


end run</pre>

2. loop action. set it to loop for a preset time = duration of the movie.


The built in screen capture dumps everything on the desktop by default. that's probably not the best place to store lots of images. You can change the directory where screen captures are deposited using [Onyx|http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system diskutilities/onyx.html].

then you can change the apple script action to

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color: #000000;
background-color: #ADD8E6;
overflow: auto;"
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on run {input, parameters}
delay 10
tell application "VLC"
activate
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "s" using {command down, option down}

end tell
end run</pre>

you can do this with Quicktime PRO.
Super Easy.
Very Customizable.

$30 I think.
Going PRO is totally worth it.