Extract image from a video

A video is made up of frames. A frame is basically a still image from a video. Such an image from a video is also called a ‘still’. It’s like a photo from a video. Sometimes it’s nice to make a still from a video, for example when you also want to save a nice moment as a photo.

The video you are using must be on the computer. One of the programs that allows you to create a still is VLC. This program is available for free for Windows computer and Mac. If necessary, read the article ‘Play everything effortlessly with VLC’ for the basic operation of the program.

Extract an image from the video as follows:

• Open the video in VLC.
• Go to the moment in the video where you want to save the image and pause the video.
• Click in the menu on Video > Snapshot (Windows) or Snapshot (Mac).

The image was created and saved in the ‘Pictures’ folder. The file name of the image is structured as follows: vlcsnap-[de datum]-[een uniek nummer].png

Optionally, specify a different folder as the save location.

• Click in the menu on Additional (Windows) or VLC (Mac) > Preferences > Video.
• Under ‘Video Snapshots’, behind ‘Map’, click To leaf through.
• Browse to the folder where you want to save the images.
• click on Select folder (Windows) or To elect (Mac).
• click on Save.

From now on, the images will be in the selected folder.