Frame Extraction to Picture files

[mkurtz]

I've heard of software that will extract a piece of video into individual frames in non-lossy picture formats (PCX?, BMP?, TIFF?). From there you can modify the individual pictures (usually a batch process across all pictures), and then you can reassemble them back into a video file.

For example, if I have a ten second video clip shot at 30fps, then the program would produce 30*10=300 individual tiff picture files - one for each frame.

Anyone know of software that can do this?

Thanks for any help you can give!

[JustinT]

most NLE's can do this - some EGs are premier & vegas - if u just do a search for export video images or something like that - u should come up with a lot of results...

After effects and main concept (can't remem the name of the prog) program can do it to.

Again as i said though a search should come up with heaps - might be some freeware stuff too...

Sidenote: i use PNG for my lossless file out put due to size and it being a lossless codec- what do you guys use and why?

[mkurtz]

I found my own answer. Using virtualdub, there is an option in the file menu to extract frames as a series of images.

The documentation says you can then reassemble the images by selecting "open video" then selecting the first image in the series. Virtualdub then knows that this is a series of image files and reassembles them into a movie file.

This appears to do the job!