Wednesday, December 1, 2010

How to Create Pictures From Videos

The simplest way to create a picture or still images from a video file is to literally take a picture of the video at the place you would like a photo. See below:

For PC users:
1. Open the video file and maximize it to full screen. If the video looks too blurry, then drag the video to be large enough where the quality of the picture shown is still acceptable.
2. Pause the video at the place you would like a picture.
3. Press the button on your keyboard that says Print Scrn = SysRq (it is in the upper right hand corner of most keyboards)
4. Open the application called MS Paint. On a PC it should be in the start menu usually in accessories.
5. Inside of Paint, right click in the white area and select Paste
6. You should now see a picture of the screen that you took when the video was playing. You can crop it by using the select tool. Select just the video area, then press edit>copy, then delete everything and select edit>paste
7. Click File>Save AS and select the type as JPEG

Questions? Post in the comments. Thanks for reading!

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