Save a frame from a video

What it can do and its limits

• Move to a position on the video timeline and place a pin; the frames at the pinned positions are saved as images. With “Place pins at a regular interval”, you can also pin the whole video at an even interval (0.1 seconds or more).
• With one pin, one image is saved. With two or more pins, the images are saved together in one ZIP file (without compression). Up to 100 pins and 500 MB of images in total per run. If the total gets large, choose JPEG.
• Several frames are captured by moving to each position in turn, so the time needed grows with the number of frames. You can stop at any time (the frames captured so far are discarded).
• If pins are closer together than the video’s frames, the same image may appear more than once.
• Only videos that your browser can play can be opened. Even with the same extension (.mp4, .mov and so on), a video may not open because of the compression format used inside.
• The saved frame is the one the browser considers closest to the chosen position. It may not be exact to the frame.
• If the video resolution exceeds about 16.77 million pixels (for example 8K), the image is scaled down while keeping the aspect ratio.
• Switching to another tab or closing the screen during processing may stop it.

Formats

• PNG keeps full image quality but makes larger files.
• JPEG makes smaller files with slightly lower image quality.