How to extract frames from a video using VLC Player

In this video tutorial i will show you how to extract the image frames from a video using VLC player.

The VLC player has the ability to extract the frames from a video.

Step as follows

1. Create a folder and copy the path. That folder used to store your frames.
2. Click Tools - Preferences in VLC.

3. Under “show settings”, click “all”.
4. Under “Video”, select “Filters”. Tick “Scene video filter”.

5. Expand “Filters” and select “Scene filter”,

6. Paste the path from earlier you have copied into “directory path prefix”.
7. set the “recording ratio” box exampe 10,20 etc.

8. Click “save”.

9. Click Media - Open Video and find your video. Patiently let the whole thing play.

10. Click Tools - Preferences. Under “show settings”, click “all”. Under “video”, select “filters”. check “Scene video filter”. Click “save”.

11. Open the folder see the frames generated from the video.

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[gy]

Key to success: run as Administrator. Tested on v3.0.11, Win10.

[kenwiens]

I had troubles getting it to work. I think that the change that finally got it working was to use a simple folder name to collect the frames (like "E:/temp". Using a longer folder name with multiple subfolders seems to fail.

[notloki]

If it doesn't work:

- Try closing and reopening VLC after applying the filter.

- (on Windows) right click and run as Administrator.

- using a simple folder path like: "D:/vlctemp" without extra folders or other artefacts in the path name like spaces etc seems to help. You can also change the file type to "jpg" instead of "png".

To remove the filter simply go back to the filter's page and untick "Scene video filter"

[pierrebeneby]

FIX: I tried the VLC method and it does extract frames from videos but I couldn't get it to export ALL the frames. I had a 25 second clip at 24fps which equals out to 600 frames. No matter what I changed the ratio to in VLC's scene filter I couldn't get that number of frames extracted. The fix I found was to download Davinci Resolve 18 for free and used the 'Saver' node under the Fusion tab at the bottom and exported a bunch of sequences as a test. I did a PNG sequence as well as a JPG and a JPEG. All of the sequences had the 600 frames as expected.

[SorinBucse]

Doesn't work with the latest VLC 3.0.6 or 3.0.8 tested on both Mac and PC

[jasonokoro]

They used vlc 2.1.3 rincewind in the tutorial but that just crashes on my mac when I try to import a video. newer version doesn't copy the images to the directory. :(

[adminj]

Run VLC as administrator and it will work.

[Klonoa]

I've been messing around with using the scene video filter on a video I've put effects on but when it saves the images to the folder the filters never show up. Any idea why it isn't working? I've tried saving the filters but it doesn't work.

[mihaibeffa]

Sorry it does not work. All the menus are there, nothing is written to the output directory.

[hentertainment]

Is there a way to do this with the subtitles on?

[shannonmcgonegal]

What if you do not have the Scene Video Filter option available under Video > Filters?

[jamesbreed]

I can't get it to record 1:1 for a video at 60fps. I get perhaps 1:3. My pc has decent ram. Help??

[jayshah]

i didnt work with the latest version i have. which version did you use in this video plss

[stoneagespaceman]

outdated ... those menus aren't even available for the current version of VLC

[amzef]

THAT'S NOT RIGHT!
SOMETHING IS MISSING FROM YOUR TUTORIAL!!
ON PURPOSE?