Video Frame Extractor

Frame size and full-resolution stills

Frames are scaled to the width you pick, from 240 to 800 pixels, which suits previews, storyboards, and reference sets. For a single frame at the video's full resolution, such as a thumbnail from 4K footage, use video screenshot instead. To see the frames laid out together in one image rather than as separate files, use the contact sheet.

Working out the spacing

The gap between frames is the length of the range divided by the number of frames. Twelve frames across a one-minute clip gives one every five seconds; the same twelve across a ten-second range gives nearly one a second. For a storyboard of a long video, one frame every 10–30 seconds is often enough to show each shot; to study a movement, set a range of a few seconds and take 24 or more.

Up to 60 frames can be taken at once. For more, run the tool again on the next part of the video.

How to use it

1. Choose a video file.
2. Pick how many frames to take and how wide they should be.
3. Extract and download the zip.

Privacy & limitations

The video is read straight from your device and never uploaded. Everything — decoding, resizing, and encoding — happens in this browser tab, so large files are limited by your own memory rather than an upload queue. Frames are re-encoded from the decoded picture, so they carry no metadata from the source file.