1. Online, in any browser
- Open Video to JPG and drop your video (MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV, AVI, SWF and more).
- Keep JPG, or choose PNG for lossless pictures, and convert.
- Download the ZIP. A clip up to a minute long gives one picture per second; a longer video gives 60 pictures spread evenly. Each file name shows the time, such as frame-012-0m11s.jpg.
Each picture is the full size of the video: 1920 x 1080 for a 1080p video, 3840 x 2160 for 4K. It works on phones too.
Get one exact moment
To get the pictures around one moment of a long video, first cut a few seconds around it with Trim Video, then convert that short clip. You get one picture per second of it and can keep the sharpest.
2. With VLC on a computer
The free VLC player can save the frame you are watching: pause the video at the right moment and choose Video > Take Snapshot. The picture is saved in your Pictures folder at the video's full size. This is handy for one or two pictures; for many, the online method is faster.
3. On a phone
Pausing and taking a screenshot works in a hurry, but you get the size of your screen and sometimes the player buttons. For a clean, full-size picture, open Video to JPG in your phone's browser and upload the video from your gallery. iPhone videos are MOV files and work directly; see MOV to JPG.
JPG or PNG?
- JPG: much smaller files, best for sharing, thumbnails and viewing.
- PNG: lossless, best for editing and for frames with text, such as slides from a recorded lecture.
Old Flash (SWF) videos
An SWF that contains video can be turned into pictures with SWF to JPG. Interactive Flash games and animations made only of vector shapes have no video frames, so they cannot be saved as pictures this way.