Extract Screenshots from Quicktime

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Sparky2006 Author

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Extract Screenshots from Quicktime

I was wondering if anyone out there knows of a batch program or automator action that can take any quicktime movie, and take out images, save them as .jpg.
I know I can do a image sequence but I don't need 20,000 images from a short 20 min video.
I only need like 10 screenshots.

Even if it has to be manual process I need something that will save and sequential the images into a folder.
Right now I am using SnagIt on the PC but a MAC version or something similar would be great.

Quad G-5, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Apr 17, 2007 9:08 AM

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Answer 1

Apr 17, 2007 9:25 AM in response to Sparky2006

Moving to Piture...you can do single export of stills from a video with this export option.

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Kyn Drake

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Apr 17, 2007 10:42 AM in response to Sparky2006

You can grab any single frame of a QuickTime movie by moving the playhead to the frame you want and Copying the frame. Then, you can Paste it into any other application.

If you want to convert it to a .jpg, you can send it through Preview. Just open Preview and pressing Command-N will create a new doc with that image and then you can export it as .jpg, .png, or whatever you like.

Another little thing I've used once is to drag and drop the image from QuickTime to TextEdit and when you save the TextEdit document then look into the rtfd package, you'll find all the images saved as .tiffs.

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