A friend of mine has a digital camera. It can take short video shots
that upload to .MOV files on a PC running Windows. It's possible
to view the videos and to stop them at a point and print out the
still image. What I'd like to know is whether there is some kind
of extraction/conversion software that will actually save the still
image to a separate file as, say, a JPEG file, and also whether,
instead of having to hit the forward "button" on the display and
hope one gets exactly the right moment, one can give it a number x
as one of the inputs and it will produce the still exactly x seconds
(for example) into the video.

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David J Taylor - 24 Dec 2007 12:30 GMT
> A friend of mine has a digital camera. It can take short video shots
> that upload to .MOV files on a PC running Windows. It's possible
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> as one of the inputs and it will produce the still exactly x seconds
> (for example) into the video.
Have you tried Virtual Dub?
David
tomm42 - 24 Dec 2007 13:16 GMT
> A friend of mine has a digital camera. It can take short video shots
> that upload to .MOV files on a PC running Windows. It's possible
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Any video editing software should do this, I use ULead Video Studio.
Tom
Don Stauffer in Minnesota - 24 Dec 2007 15:08 GMT
> A friend of mine has a digital camera. It can take short video shots
> that upload to .MOV files on a PC running Windows. It's possible
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
> * Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT CSAIL. My actions and
> * comments do not reflect in any way on MIT. Also, I am nowhere near Boston.
Can you open the files in Windows Movie Maker, a free utility that
comes with Windows? If so, you can select a frame and export it,
putting it into whatever folder you want.
Allan Adler - 25 Dec 2007 09:30 GMT
Thanks for the helpful suggestions. I'll try them out.

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Allan Adler - 31 Dec 2007 11:18 GMT
> Thanks for the helpful suggestions. I'll try them out.
I tried out Windows Movie Maker. It can't handle .MOV files.

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