Motion Stills – Now on Android

Re:Motion Stills – Now on Android by owenversteeg on Friday July 21, 2017 @01:45AM (#14818328)

So I hadn't heard of this and I thought the name was for taking a still photo from a video. Sadly, that's not what this does, so does anybody know a good solution that does this?

It's 2017, I feel like "hit spacebar in VLC and screenshot" is a really poor way of extracting still images from video. So what is the highest-quality way to extract a still from a video?

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Re:Motion Stills – Now on Android by whiddershins on Friday July 21, 2017 @02:23AM (#14818458)

Photoshop can extract frames from a video, from which you can save animated gifs or just single frame stills.

Premiere or Final Cut can easily export single frames as stills.

As for doing it with free tools, I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are a number of good ways.

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Re:Motion Stills – Now on Android by GuiA on Friday July 21, 2017 @03:37AM (#14818739)

If you want to do it interactively, what do you want that frame capturing from VLC doesn't offer?

If you want to do it programmatically, what do you want that ffmpeg doesn't offer?

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