Is a frame better than a screenshot of the video?

Yes. A screenshot captures the player at screen size, often blurred by scaling and with controls in the way. Here each frame is decoded from the file at the video's own resolution, so a 4K video gives 3840 × 2160 stills. They are still frames of a moving picture, so fast motion can look blurred in them, as it does when you pause.

Why is there a limit of 500 frames?

The stills are kept in the page's memory until you save them, and a few hundred full-size pictures is already a lot for a phone or an older computer. For a long video, choose a longer gap between stills, or mark just the moments you need.

Should I save the frames as JPG or PNG?

JPG files are several times smaller and fine for sharing, thumbnails and most uses. PNG keeps every pixel exactly as decoded, which is better for editing, comparing frames or training data, at the cost of much bigger files.

Why can't my video be opened?

The page reads MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV, and decodes the picture with the browser's own decoder. An iPhone video in HEVC opens only in browsers that can play HEVC, such as Safari, and older formats like AVI, WMV or FLV are not read at all; the Video Converter turns those into an MP4 that works here.

Is my video uploaded to extract the frames?

No. The video is read and decoded on your own computer, and the stills and the ZIP are made in the page and saved straight from it.

Stays on your computer How this works

Extract frames from video

Save stills from a video as JPG or PNG: every few seconds, every frame of a short clip, or the exact moments you pick - in your browser, so the video is never uploaded

Drag & drop a video here, or browse

Tap to choose a video

MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV · nothing is uploaded

About this frame extractor

Takes still pictures out of a video, at the video's full resolution. Choose one still every so many seconds, every single frame of a short clip, or play and scrub the video and mark the exact moments you want. Each still can be saved on its own, or all of them together in one ZIP, as JPG or PNG.

The frames are decoded by your browser's own video decoder, so a frame is the picture exactly as it is in the video, not a screenshot of the player. MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV videos work when the browser can play their picture; for older formats such as AVI or WMV, convert to MP4 with the Video Converter first. It is free to use, with no account and no upload limit, and it runs entirely in your browser: nothing is uploaded, and while the page stays open, a feature you have already used keeps working offline.

What you can do

Extract one frame every few seconds, at an interval you choose
Extract every frame of a short clip, up to 500 at a time
Scrub the video and mark the exact moments to save
Save as JPG or lossless PNG at the video's full resolution
Save stills one at a time, or all of them as one ZIP
Stop a long extraction and keep the frames made so far

How to extract frames from a video

Drop a video onto the page, or click to choose one.
Choose one frame every so many seconds, every frame, or the moments you mark on the player.
Choose JPG or PNG and click Extract.
Save the stills you want, or save them all as a ZIP.

Questions

Is a frame better than a screenshot of the video?: Yes. A screenshot captures the player at screen size, often blurred by scaling and with controls in the way. Here each frame is decoded from the file at the video's own resolution, so a 4K video gives 3840 × 2160 stills. They are still frames of a moving picture, so fast motion can look blurred in them, as it does when you pause.
Why is there a limit of 500 frames?: The stills are kept in the page's memory until you save them, and a few hundred full-size pictures is already a lot for a phone or an older computer. For a long video, choose a longer gap between stills, or mark just the moments you need.
Should I save the frames as JPG or PNG?: JPG files are several times smaller and fine for sharing, thumbnails and most uses. PNG keeps every pixel exactly as decoded, which is better for editing, comparing frames or training data, at the cost of much bigger files.
Why can't my video be opened?: The page reads MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV, and decodes the picture with the browser's own decoder. An iPhone video in HEVC opens only in browsers that can play HEVC, such as Safari, and older formats like AVI, WMV or FLV are not read at all; the Video Converter turns those into an MP4 that works here.
Is my video uploaded to extract the frames?: No. The video is read and decoded on your own computer, and the stills and the ZIP are made in the page and saved straight from it.