Convert Video To Images With VLC

Quickly and easily convert video to images with VLC media player.

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You can turn video into images with VLC.
This is good for making gifs.
Open your video.
Go tools and preferences.
Now show settings to all.
Go to video.
Filters.
Find and select scene filter
You can leave image format to be png.
Your images will be saved in the pictures folder.
If you want to change that add path here.
Recording ratio means that if you put value 5 every fifth image will be saved.
Put one if you want to export every second.
Click save.
Now enable this by going filters and tick this scene video filter.
Now if you play video you will see that it exports images.
Make sure to turn off this by going filters again and untick the scene filter.
Thi is important because if you forget it every video will produce images until you run out of hard drive.

And this is it.
This is how you Convert video to images with VLC.

Thanks for watching, drop some comments below if you find this helpful and have a nice day.

[jimh]

Great video. This helped me get far enough along to get the job done. A few notes from my experience:

1. After settings you may need to rewind the video to the beginning. It only seems to output pictures from where you start to play.
2. Make sure that VLC is not set up to repeat playback of the video
3. I did not see any pictures until I closed VLC media player. In fact, none of my settings took hold until I restarted VLC (maybe a bug in my version?)
4. Once I closed and re-opened VLC media player, the png output worked fine- didn't have to repeat closing and opening.

You may see different behavior based on your version of VLC and/or which OS platform you are on.

[LorDofNerdsOfficial]

Thanks for the tutorial. I have the problem, that VLC doesn't run smoothly with this activated. I hear the sound fine, but the movie doesn't move - it just shows a still picture and VLC also just imports this one picture over and over. Any way to fix this or is that just my PC being to weak?

[aldyas_]

Really thanks so much! The more I see videos like this the more I think that VLC is the photoshop of video editing... It has so much utility

[sebastianthrash]

Thanks for the vid. First it didnt work but then I did what "Jim H" said in the comments here and then it did. Except for one thing. Here is my question/problem: Everytime I turn on the "scene video filter" the frame rate drops. Not just the pictures I'm getting out of it have a lower fps, but when I am watching the vid it also has lower fps. Do you know how to fix this?

[khalilnaji]

Thank you Thank you So much. For me it did it when I restarted the VLC. Great video. Very helpful.

[anonymous-user-]

Thanks. How to make it take a screenshot for every new video slide? Instead of time based?

[bibigloom]

The potential of vlc are all to be discovered. Great video. Thanks

[bronzeriver]

You are awesome man! Can't say enough how this has helped me!

[ArtificallyIntelligentAi]

This has to be the best tutorial i've ever seen

[AlexSinclair]

Thank you for this! I was trying to export a video into one frame for every second, and was really worried I had to do it manually every second for 1 hour 49 minutes! I just set the recording ratio to the frame rate of the video, restarted VLC (per @Jim H's tip) and let the movie play!

Note: I accidentally set the recording ratio to 1 initially and it generated 700 images in just a few seconds! That might have killed my hard drive if I had let it play.

[mindinterceptor]

If only one file shows up on the output folder, you have to do this: right after clicking on preferences, select video on the top menu and you must check the box for sequential numbering (middle right). If you don't do this, the first file is overwritten again and again (you'll notice the swap file appears everytime a file is overwritten)

[sifisomnumzanemagaye]

Thank you - that was extremely helpful.

[Unlucky]

If it doesn't work for you the fix is that you need to put an output path.
on 0:31 just put the location of a folder
example:
c:\downloads\New

[bhadreshprajapati]

Thank you so

Also restarting comment was helpful

[fabrice]

Excellent tutorial, sir! Thank you so much.

[sadafafridi]

This is wonderful and worth knowing a fine education.

[EnochianBorg]

My .png files are going to the folder but they are all upside down. I do not have rotate enabled. It is something I cannot figure out. Any Ideas?

[maheshgraphic]

Hey,
Thanks for the hack, it saves a lot of time.
After setting I restarted the player and then it worked.

[sheethalstubevlog]

This will be help to explain any movies 🤗🤗🤗

[writerashokkumar]

really very usefull video immediately i can make a demo for my work, results are good, thank you so much A.meharajan India