so is there a simple way to capture a jpeg from video

[shugah]

i'm trying to capture stills (jpg, prefereably) from a video. i've got adobe CS3 available to me for this project but can't figure out how to do it.

anyone know how to do this? i'm not committed to using a method from the adobe suite, i'm happy to do it the quickest and easiest way.

TIA!

[RoyGBiv]

1. With a video player ...

Both Mplayer and Media Player Classic have screen cap functions.

Others have them too, but these are the ones I have used for this purpose.

You can do it with Windows Media Player too, but I found the method too clunky and so never committed it to memory ... something about unchecking a certain option, during a full screen-cap, then editing the screen cap.

[shugah]

2. thank you for the suggestion

as you can imagine, there is a simple way to do it using premiere pro - it's just a matter of figuring it out. export frame, d'uh.

i actually only stumbled upon the solution when i was in the process of completing an infinitely more difficult task.

p.s. the windows media player methods as described in numerous online sources don't work either, anyway.

thanks again!

[RoyGBiv]

3. Glad you figured it out ...

I was having trouble imagining your software not having some method available for such a simple thing, but since I don't use it I had no idea what it might be. It's always named something different in different packages it seems.

I remember using WMP to do this once, but that was several versions ago, and it was annoying back then. They probably just made it more annoying.