Free · no watermark on stills · nothing uploads
Video to image
Grab a still frame at the exact second you name, saved as a lossless PNG. Pro adds a contact sheet of twelve frames across the whole clip.
Screenshotting is not the same as extracting
Taking a screenshot of a playing video captures whatever your screen was showing: the frame scaled to the size of the player, colour-managed by the display, possibly with player controls fading over the top. Extracting pulls the frame out of the file at its native resolution, before any of that happens. On a 4K clip the difference is the gap between a 1280-pixel screengrab and a full 3840-pixel image.
Why the moment you pick matters
Video codecs spend their bit budget unevenly. A still shot holds detail well because little is changing; a whip pan or a hand waving near the lens gets far fewer bits and reconstructs softer. If a frame comes out mushier than you expected, nudging the timestamp by half a second to a calmer moment usually fixes it. The footage has not changed, only how much of it the encoder chose to keep.
Getting the frame you actually want
Type the second you want, to a tenth of a second, and the tool saves that moment at the video's full native resolution: a 4K clip gives you a 3840-pixel-wide PNG, and a vertical phone clip gives you a tall one. The file is named after your video plus the second it came from, so a run of grabs stays in order in your downloads folder. Stills carry no watermark, and the free tier takes videos up to 200 MB.
If you do not know the exact second, Pro's contact sheet shows 12 evenly spaced moments across the whole clip in one image, four across and three down, each tile 320 pixels wide. Read the rough timestamp off the grid, then grab that moment at full size. Without Pro, try a few timestamps half a second apart around the moment you are after. For PNG versus JPG and landing on an exact frame rather than near it, see extracting frames from video.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a watermark on extracted frames?
- No. The free-tier mark applies to video exports that get re-encoded; a still frame is an image, so it comes out clean the same way MP3 audio does. Nothing is added to it at any tier.
- Why is my frame slightly blurry?
- Compressed video only stores a handful of complete pictures (keyframes) and describes everything between them as changes. A frame grabbed midway through that sequence is reconstructed rather than stored, and fast motion makes the reconstruction softer. Grabbing a moment where the shot is still usually gives a noticeably sharper image.
- What is a contact sheet for?
- It is one PNG containing twelve frames sampled evenly across the whole clip, laid out as a grid. It came from film, where a contact sheet let you see a roll at a glance. Here it is the fastest way to find the moment you actually want, pick a thumbnail, or check what is in footage you have not watched.
- What format do I get?
- PNG, encoded at high quality. PNG is lossless, so the frame you get is as close to what the decoder produced as the file format allows, with no second round of compression artefacts on top of the ones already in the video.