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A video frame extractor is a tool that helps anyone turn a video into multiple still images, so you can save its frames as JPGs instead of pausing and taking screenshots. Our tool is free, needs no account, and runs in your browser, so your video never leaves your device. You can also trim the video and choose how often frames are captured, how many you get, and their size.
How it worksExtracting keyframes with our tool is simple: upload your video, wait a moment, and download your frames. From experience, we set the defaults to a frame every half second over the first two minutes. That suits most clips and saves you working out your own settings, but you can change them anytime.
Drop a video file into the box or pick one from your phone or computer, and our tool starts pulling frames right away. MP4, MOV, WebM and any other format your browser can play will work.
By default our tool keeps the frames that look different and skips black ones. If you need something else, open Edit settings, change what you like, and extract again without adding the video twice.
Click any frame to view it full screen and zoom in. You can save frames one by one, or press Download all to get every frame at once in a ZIP named after your video.
TipsThe extractor can only work with what’s in your video, so these two habits give you cleaner, sharper frames and less sorting afterwards.
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A screen recording captures everything on your screen: player buttons, captions, notifications, the clock and battery, usually at a lower resolution. All of that ends up in your frames. Whenever you can, save or export the original video and extract from that. If a recording is all you have, trim off the “Stop recording” screen at the end so your frames come out clean.
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Intros, outros and logo screens rarely make useful stills, so there’s no point saving them. In our editor, drag the trim handles to keep the part you care about. You get fewer frames, and more of them are the stills you’re after, with less to delete by hand.
ComparisonYou can save frames from a video by pausing it and taking screenshots, or let a frame extractor do the work. Here’s how the two compare.
| Aspect | Manual (pause and screenshot) | Automated (frame extractor) |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | One frame at a time: pause, scrub and take a screenshot | Captures frames for you at the interval you set |
| Choosing frames | You judge by eye which moments matter | Keeps a frame whenever the picture changes |
| Image quality | Screen resolution, often with player controls in the shot | Taken from the video itself, up to its original resolution |
| Repeated frames | Easy to end up with near-identical shots | Back-to-back lookalikes and black frames are left out |
| Saving | Screenshots pile up one by one | Download single frames or a ZIP of all of them |
| Best for | Grabbing one or two specific moments | A clip’s key moments, ready for thumbnails or a reverse image search |
FAQYes. It’s free to use, with no account needed and no watermark on your frames.
Use them as thumbnails, as reference shots for an edit, or in a reverse image search to find where a clip came from. To search many at once, upload them to our bulk reverse image search, which checks up to 1,000 in one batch for a one-time fee.
No. The extractor runs in your browser, so your video is processed on your own device and never uploaded, and even the ZIP is built there.
Any video file your browser can play, including common formats like MP4, MOV and WebM. There’s no file size limit, but very long or unusual files depend on how quickly your browser can read them.
By default, the extractor covers the first two minutes and saves up to 120 frames, though a clip with lots of motion can reach 120 sooner. To go further, open Edit settings, drag Trim end further along, and raise Max keyframes or set it to Unlimited.
It compares each new frame with the last one it kept and keeps it if about a fifth of the picture has changed. Even in a still scene it keeps one frame every 2.5 seconds, while frames that are almost entirely black are left out. You can change how often frames are captured with Capture every in Edit settings, or switch off Deduplication and Skip black.
You choose in Edit settings before you extract: Optimized keeps the longest side at 768 px, Medium at 1,080 px, and Original matches your video. Frames are never upscaled, keep the video’s orientation, and are saved as high-quality JPGs.
Yes. In Edit settings, drag Trim start to the moment you want and set Max keyframes to 1. If you need to be precise, the arrow keys move the handle in 0.1-second steps.