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Small Things Sorted

Still frame from a video

One frame out of the clip - at the video's own resolution.

Stays on your device – The video is played and read in your browser. It is not uploaded.

Drop your files here

or

You can also paste with Ctrl+V.

The step is one frame at the measured frame rate. Whether the browser then shows exactly that frame depends on it and on the format - the time above the bar tells you what is actually on screen.

What you type is processed in your browser and never sent to us.

How to do it

  1. Pick your video

    Drop the file in or choose it.

  2. Find the moment

    Scrub in the player, then adjust frame by frame with the arrows.

  3. Set marks

    For several moments: "Set a mark" each time. The list shows you what you have.

  4. Save

    One at a time or all marks together. Several come back as a ZIP.

What this is for

One frame out of the clip: as a thumbnail, as evidence, or because something is legible at exactly that moment. A screenshot is the obvious route and the worse one - it has the size of your screen rather than of the video, and the player controls come along with it.

Here the frame comes out at the video's own resolution. A 4K clip gives a 4K picture; a portrait phone video gives a portrait one.

The two arrows step one frame back and on. Above the bar stands the time - and where the browser will say so, the time of the frame actually on screen rather than the one that was asked for. Those are not always the same.

If you need several moments, set marks and save them together at the end. Otherwise it would be six trips through a file dialogue for six pictures.

Common questions

No. It is played and read in your browser - with a video that is often several hundred megabytes, that is incidentally also the faster route.

Whatever your browser can play. MP4 with H.264 works practically everywhere, WebM likewise; with MOV it depends on the codec. MKV and AVI do not work - no mainstream browser plays them. The tool then tells you which format it is instead of showing a black rectangle.

Because browsers ship only a small selection of containers and codecs, for licensing and maintenance reasons. The picture data in an MKV file is often the same as in an MP4; only the wrapper is unfamiliar. Repacking is not something this tool can do - that needs a program on your machine.

The step is one frame at the measured frame rate. Whether the browser then shows exactly that frame depends on the browser and the format - some jump to the nearest keyframe. That is why the time above the bar is the time of the frame actually on screen, where the browser will say. Trust that number, not the arithmetic.

Because no browser reveals it. It is measured by playing for a moment and watching when the frames arrive - the gap between them gives the rate. That hits the common values reliably, but it is a measurement and not a statement from the file.

At the video's. The only limit is the browser's drawing surface at around 16 megapixels - an 8K frame is above that and gets scaled down. The tool tells you when that happens.

Because a phone stores a portrait video sideways and only adds a rotation note. Browsers honour it; some simpler programs do not. The still frame gets the orientation you see in the player.

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