Hey everyone today, I'm going to show you how to capture a photo from video using a free piece of software called
VLC media player so check it out
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So today I'm going to be showing you a really easy and free way to capture a photo from your videos using
VLC media player if you're like me you do a lot of video work and sometimes you want to just grab a photo
to share on social media
Or maybe you caught something cool like a bolt of lightning
Then you want to turn into a photo and I cut a bolt of lightning last year
So that's what we're gonna be working with today the first off
Let's just head over to the internet quickly and you can download VLC media player at Videoland org
It's open-source software and it's available on windows linux or mac
And if you're using Linux or Mac
I'd love to hear from you in the comments section below
if the process is the same for you as for me on my Windows PC, but let's open up a video clip here and
I happen to know at 59 seconds. There's a bolt of lightning
so we're gonna find that I know of three different ways that you can
Turn these or capture photos from these videos
so I'm gonna show you all three of those and then I actually
after that
I'm gonna show you how to change the file save location as it is
Default to a certain location and maybe you want it to be
Saved on your desktop and the setting for that is kind of tricky and it's buried in there
So I'll show you that after I show you these three methods so at 59
Seconds right here. There is a bolt of lightning. Now if you hit ye on your keyboard you can go frame by frame
And here you can see a that one's pretty cool there
So we're gonna use that for our sample here and we'll show you the first method
It's really easy to do just right click on your mouse and go down to the video
Button here and then you can go to the bottom here and you'll see take snapshot
So if you just click on that, it'll take that snapshot for you. So that's the first way really easy to do
And it's right there in the settings
so that's the first way the second way on a Windows computer is shift and s so if I do that
It'll save another snapshot
That's actually probably the easiest if you're using Linux
I believe it's ctrl alt s and if you're on a Mac command
Alt s so if any of you using Linux or Mac write in the comments section below if that works for you
Now the third way to do this up here at the top under the video
Button here. You can just click on that and scroll right to the bottom here and there is a take snapshot
So that's the third way three easy ways to grab snapshots here in VLC media player
So let's just go find those and then I'll show you how to change the file save location
So they're right here in my pictures if that's the default it puts them right in the picture sent section in my in my windows
here and when I open it up you can see it doesn't have any of the
VLC media
Information around it it is just a clear shot from my video. So
That's where that is located. And again that's in my pictures section
So let's go ahead and go back to VLC and show you how to change the file save location
I often when I'm doing this just want that picture to go right to my desktop. So it's easy to access
so right at the top you're gonna want to click on tools and at the very bottom of that menu is preferences and
It opens up the simple preferences section and you want to click on this pylon here at the top that says video
And down here at the bottom. It says video snapshots and this and then directory underneath that. So if you click on browse here
You'll be able to
just click on desktop if that's where you want it to go or find a different menu and then just hit select folder and
It should do that for you
We'll just hit save and let's try and save this again and just make sure it goes to my desktop. So if we right-click
video
Take snapshot and it did save it there
So let's go see if it is on my desktop and it is it's up here in the right-hand corner
so we'll open that up and
There you go, and it's that easy to take
capture photos and take snapshots from your videos using VLC media player
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