I upgraded to Pro specifically to export stills from a video. I want to export the stills as .png files which is an option offered in the compression types dropdown. All I seem to get are .pict files. What am I doing wrong?
Quicktime Pro-OTHER, Windows 7
I upgraded to Pro specifically to export stills from a video. I want to export the stills as .png files which is an option offered in the compression types dropdown. All I seem to get are .pict files. What am I doing wrong?
Nothing. PICT is the old Mac default system image file format. Unfortunately, QT 7 Pro was never updated to use the PNG file format which is now the default Mac system image type.
Not a Windows user, so I do not know if your options window is different that the one for the Mac. Basically, you are not being given the option of changing the file type, but rather how the PICT file type will be compressed as seen below:
Frankly, you may have been better off installing the free MPEG Streamclip app if not already on your system. It should allow you to export a video frame to JPEG, TIFF or PNG file types directly from the player—assuming the Windows version works the same as the Mac version.
Thanks for the information Jon.
I'm a relative novice with Quicktime. If I'd known about the MPEG Streamer I could have save myself some money!
No worries - I've gained some knowledge.
Can you give us any further infos?
1.) Do you just want to export 1 images from the video?
2.) Or all images / frames of the videos?
3.) Or "a number of images" - let's say 30 images of the video?
We developed an application for a customer which exports a given number of images from a video - may be this would help? Then please let us know...
I upgraded to Pro specifically to export stills from a video. Whichever compression type I choose I am only able to get .pict stills. .png appears to be an option in the list of compression types but when I select it the result is .pict
