- Program to automatically capture every Xth frame of a clip?
- Posted by Tom Gustafson on December 11th, 2003
Hello everyone,
I have been a long-time reader of this group and this is my first post.
I am looking for either a program or method for automatically
capturing every Xth (30 or 60 or some random number) frame of clip as a
jpg or gif. My goal is to do a "high-light" clip of a pre-existing and
edited clip. I am using Vegas 4.0 for my video editing.
Thanks for any help in advance,
Tom
- Posted by Jim Gunn on December 11th, 2003
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 22:06:37 -0600, Tom Gustafson
<gust0208@STOPSPAMyahoo.com> wrote:
You can use SnatchIt to grab any number of frames automatically from a
video.
http://theedgeofforever.com/
- Posted by Richard Crowley on December 11th, 2003
"Tom Gustafson" wrote ...
I believe Scenalyzer can do that.
(Called "time-lapse" or somesuch?)
www.scenalyzer.com
- Posted by Per Andersson C (AS/EAB) on December 11th, 2003
Richard Crowley wrote:
I have looked for that feature but still not found it. Where IS that
time lapse thing? All I can find is preprogrammed start and stop times.
/Per
- Posted by Samuel Paik on December 11th, 2003
Tom Gustafson <gust0208@STOPSPAMyahoo.com> wrote:
VirtualDub can do this. <http://www.virtualdub.org/>. Set decimate
frame rate, then save as image sequence.
Sam
- Posted by Jim Gunn on December 11th, 2003
On 11 Dec 2003 05:58:36 GMT, Kevin <nomail@nospam.invalid> wrote:
Scenalyzer Live is a great capture program, and it does capture
individual frames, but as far as I can tell it cannot do so
automatically on some kind of interval. You have to actually advance
to the frame and hit a button each time to select it SnatchIt works
the best for this purpose.
- Posted by Tom Gustafson on December 12th, 2003
Samuel Paik wrote:
Thanks for the tip to use VirtualDub! I already have it on my system
and it worked like a charm! The only question I have is if it possible
to change the file format VirtualDub saves the pictures as? It gives
the option of BMP or TGA and BMP works fine, but jpg would save some space.
Thanks again for the help,
Tom
- Posted by RGBaker on December 15th, 2003
ScLive has a terrific interval capture setting -- I've used it to capture 1
frame in 30 & so create a compact dv.avi archive file -- you can capture an
entire tape to a file small enough to fit on a CD-R, you can play it back
with any computer that uses WMP, and though the file will permanently play
at 'high speed' ... there are no artifacts, and a freeze or still export
generates a 'perfect' frame ... and the timecode data is preserved from tape
& so still makes for useful batch capture information. A useful way to
archive b-roll tapes.
GB
