[thechat] Video Question - jpg still from mov file?

[Seb Potter]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:05:11 -0500, Luther, Ron <ron.luther at hp.com> wrote:

> Hi Gang,
>
>
> I was up in Austin last weekend and, as part of the festivities, took a 
> small video of the famous Austin bats with my video camera ... roughly a 
> 7 Mb QuickTime [*.mov format] file.
>
> It was pretty interesting, to me anyway. They didn't "blanket the skies" 
> ... they surprised me by flying more or less in a single-file path. 
> [Imagine a cluster of bats about 40 feet in diameter ... now stretch that 
> out until its a line through the sky about 1/2 a mile in length ... whoa! 
> If you squint it kinda looks like an 'anime' dragon undulating across the 
> sky. A fascinating sight!]

Cool. I had a similar experience some years ago in Brisbane, though not 
quite so many bats, it was still very impressive.

> Anyway, my question is: Is there any preferred shareware out there that 
> will let me drop a still jpg or two out of that mov file?

You should be able to do this with Windows Movie Maker, or with iMovie 
depending on your platform of choice.

- seb

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