extraction of stills

A friend of mine has a digital camera. It can take short video shots
that upload to .MOV files on a PC running Windows. It's possible
to view the videos and to stop them at a point and print out the
still image. What I'd like to know is whether there is some kind
of extraction/conversion software that will actually save the still
image to a separate file as, say, a JPEG file, and also whether,
instead of having to hit the forward "button" on the display and
hope one gets exactly the right moment, one can give it a number x
as one of the inputs and it will produce the still exactly x seconds
(for example) into the video.
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Ignorantly,
Allan Adler <ara@zurich.csail.mit.edu>
* Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT CSAIL. My actions and
* comments do not reflect in any way on MIT. Also, I am nowhere near Boston.

Allan Adler wrote:
> A friend of mine has a digital camera. It can take short video shots
> that upload to .MOV files on a PC running Windows. It's possible
> to view the videos and to stop them at a point and print out the
> still image. What I'd like to know is whether there is some kind
> of extraction/conversion software that will actually save the still
> image to a separate file as, say, a JPEG file, and also whether,
> instead of having to hit the forward "button" on the display and
> hope one gets exactly the right moment, one can give it a number x
> as one of the inputs and it will produce the still exactly x seconds
> (for example) into the video.

Have you tried Virtual Dub?

David

On Dec 24, 7:04 am, Allan Adler <a...@nestle.csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> A friend of mine has a digital camera. It can take short video shots
> that upload to .MOV files on a PC running Windows. It's possible
> to view the videos and to stop them at a point and print out the
> still image. What I'd like to know is whether there is some kind
> of extraction/conversion software that will actually save the still
> image to a separate file as, say, a JPEG file, and also whether,
> instead of having to hit the forward "button" on the display and
> hope one gets exactly the right moment, one can give it a number x
> as one of the inputs and it will produce the still exactly x seconds
> (for example) into the video.
> --
> Ignorantly,
> Allan Adler <a...@zurich.csail.mit.edu>
> * Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT CSAIL. My actions and
> * comments do not reflect in any way on MIT. Also, I am nowhere near Boston.


Any video editing software should do this, I use ULead Video Studio.

Tom

On Dec 24, 6:04 am, Allan Adler <a...@nestle.csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> A friend of mine has a digital camera. It can take short video shots
> that upload to .MOV files on a PC running Windows. It's possible
> to view the videos and to stop them at a point and print out the
> still image. What I'd like to know is whether there is some kind
> of extraction/conversion software that will actually save the still
> image to a separate file as, say, a JPEG file, and also whether,
> instead of having to hit the forward "button" on the display and
> hope one gets exactly the right moment, one can give it a number x
> as one of the inputs and it will produce the still exactly x seconds
> (for example) into the video.
> --
> Ignorantly,
> Allan Adler <a...@zurich.csail.mit.edu>
> * Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT CSAIL. My actions and
> * comments do not reflect in any way on MIT. Also, I am nowhere near Boston.

Can you open the files in Windows Movie Maker, a free utility that
comes with Windows? If so, you can select a frame and export it,
putting it into whatever folder you want.

Thanks for the helpful suggestions. I'll try them out.
--
Ignorantly,
Allan Adler <ara@zurich.csail.mit.edu>
* Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT CSAIL. My actions and
* comments do not reflect in any way on MIT. Also, I am nowhere near Boston.

Allan Adler <ara@nestle.csail.mit.edu> writes:

> Thanks for the helpful suggestions. I'll try them out.

I tried out Windows Movie Maker. It can't handle .MOV files.
--
Ignorantly,
Allan Adler <ara@zurich.csail.mit.edu>
* Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT CSAIL. My actions and
* comments do not reflect in any way on MIT. Also, I am nowhere near Boston.