It was an amazing weekend. After two years graduated from college, almost all our classmates except the three abroad gathered together the first time in our college. We walk, we talk, we think and we drink…Then we return to our own life and now what leave with us are only the memories and the DVD video (which to some extent is memories too). We decide to make an album from the video by capture picture from video/ extract picture from video, and send everyone a copy. I would like to choose the pictures and now I have the video and my ibook at hand. Then it seems I need efficient software which can capture picture from video and extract picture from video to help me accomplish this task.
After I dug into the website and found nothing helpful and before I lost patience, a friend of mine finally (you know, most of time, the right person would come to you only in the end) just sent me a kind of DVD converting software that can work on my ibook－DVD to Picture for Mac. It took only a minute or so to install and then an icon was created on the desktop. Clicking the icon would open the main window as you can see below
Main Window
With no more consideration, I just dragged the video into the left “black” window of the main window and checked what I could do more. Apparently, there is a DVD video player built-in and we could preview the whole DVD video on the software. From “Settings” we could see it can capture picture from video in batch and three methods are provided: to extract picture from video at a fixed interval by setting the interval, to grab the pictures averagely, and to capture picture from video randomly is also available. And we could expand the picture list window to preview the pictures extracted and captured from video before we export them to the destination.
In addition, it also supports snapshot capture which is just fit my original intention. So I took my loving pictures (which list in the picture window finally) manually from the video one by one. I got lots of interesting and vivid pictures. And then I need to export them. Here we could see there are three export options provided: export to static pictures, export to animation and export to HTML page. I supposed I only need to export them as static pictures, so I chose the first method and saved them to my disk. I have to say that the image quality looks very great! Later, I also tried “export to HTML page” as it seems I could directly upload the pictures to the web and share with my classmates conveniently.
I only tried the basic functions to capture picture from video, and was impatient to wait to introduce it to others. The software provides various custom settings further more. Hope this kind of software to extract picture from video would meet your favor in some way. And I am going to pick up the pictures and make the album now.
