j0nnycak3s97 Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 you seem to know a lot about file types os i'll ask you a question. how do you change a movie file (WMA) to a picture file (preferalbly GIF, PNG, or JPG)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 Welcome to the forums j0nnycak3s97 Well you simply can't just change a movie file to an image. You need a program that will allow you to see the individual frames and save them as an image file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j0nnycak3s97 Posted April 17, 2006 Author Share Posted April 17, 2006 Welcome to the forums j0nnycak3s97 Well you simply can't just change a movie file to an image. You need a program that will allow you to see the individual frames and save them as an image file. oh, do you know any programs that come default with Windows? Programs that i think may help out are Windows Movie Maker(where i edited the video), and i heard something about Adobe Photoshop, but how might these programs help me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 Wondows Movie Maker should allow you to see the individual cells. I don't know if it will allow you to save one as a separate image though. One other way to do is would be to play the movie and pause where you want to capture the frame and then use something like IrfanView to capture the screen. You can then crop the image and save it in almost any format you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j0nnycak3s97 Posted April 17, 2006 Author Share Posted April 17, 2006 its more than one image though, it's a whole video...24 seconds long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Tim Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 Welcome to the forums j0nnycak3s97. I'm not sure what you are trying to do. Are you trying to edit a movie down to a 24-second snippet, or are you trying to take a few screenshots of a movie, or are you trying to convert every frame of a 24-second movie into individual image files? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 Welcome to the forum, j0nnycak3s97. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 Welcome to the forums j0nnycak3s97 if you did the movie in 30fps then you are talking about 720 images. Can you tell us how you will use them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevevan Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 Welcome to the forums! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makaveli Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 if you simply want a screen cap, power dvd is a good program to use. as it has a 1 button way to capture it. other than that you *may* be to import into flash and save it (export movie) frame by frame that seems to me to be logical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevan Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 you seem to know a lot about file types os i'll ask you a question. how do you change a movie file (WMA) to a picture file (preferalbly GIF, PNG, or JPG)? Keep in mind that GIF, PNG and JPG file formats are image files, not video. Even though an amimated GIF may look similar to a video, it's still not a video. So technically the only way to convert a video WMA file to those formats would be to convert the video to a series of still images, hence the screen shot suggestions, etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makaveli Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 (edited) re: flash suggestion file > import to library (then locate vid) it will then encode the file to a type suitable for flash you then go to your library (if not visible window > library or F11) drag this onto your work area (canvas) you will get a length warning you will then go to file > export movie(and then select jpeg, gif etc) click OK and it will esport frame by frame it may take a while.. if you don not have flash simply obtain the trial from http://www.macromedia.com edit > make sure your "canvas" is the same size as video and positioned within the work area. Edited April 17, 2006 by makaveli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 Irfranview can also extract a movie file to stills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-JimE Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Welcome to the forums. I use Irfranview too, really amazing program. Remember that if you want each frame, most have about 24-32 frames per sec, so your 24 sec clip could have 768 frames which is huge! JimE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makaveli Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 and when handling 1k+ frames of image, a good idea, (i have forgot to do this mnay a time) is put them all in a new folder! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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