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Answers : Technology

Capture stills from a .mov?

i need to capture stills from a .mov file

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Jun 22, 2009. 12:13 PM

lemonie says:

ALT-PrntScrn is an easy way to do it, you have to crop it out of the player's window or crop the title bar out. Otherwise you'd need video editing software. L

Jun 22, 2009. 5:45 PMfwjs28 (author) says:

the bar is over the main part of the image....and recomended freeware video editing stuffs?

Jun 22, 2009. 11:39 PM

lemonie says:

It's not in my normal-size Quicktime window (?).
See if these are any use:
http://www.instructables.com/community/What-is-the-best-FREE-video-editing-software-and-w/
http://www.instructables.com/community/Video-Editing-Software/

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Jun 21, 2009. 5:05 PMXOIIO says:

Well, the fastest and a free way would be to play the movie in fullscreen, and pause it where you want the still and use a screenshot tool. That will work because I've done it myself. Hope I helped!

Jun 22, 2009. 10:26 AMfwjs28 (author) says:

yes, but the only program i could find was quicktime, and its fullscreen view has an annoying little bar i can't remove...(or atleast figure out how to hide it)