Downloaded, installed, and worked great on Win 8.1/64.

This came at a perfect time. I don't do much with video so don't have much software to work with. I took some video on my phone of damage to my apartment, but the SD card decided to die before I could get screen caps for the insurance adjuster. The video file itself wasn't corrupted but when I tried to play it, it was all splotchy, and any frames I saved were blurry. Not one piece of software on this computer allowed me to step through the video frame by frame, so I tried today's GOTD software and told it to pull all frames at high quality. The process was intuitive enough that I could easily figure out what to do. And it's amazing how it worked! I've now scanned through over 1000 pictures it created and some are very clear and in focus. I know my use of it was not typical, but thanks to this software, I definitely have more good pictures documenting the damage than had I done the tedious task manually.

I'm really impressed with how fast it worked. Yes, I had to wait, but it was more like a 30 minute process as opposed to the agonizing overnight video conversions I've tried.

This is definitely a keeper. Thanks WonderFox and GOTD!

Seems to be the same software as Video to Picture version 3.2 published by Watermark-Software (c) AoaoPhoto Digital Studio given away 15/6/2010 from this site. Seems like another piece of software developed by one firm but SOLD by different companies.

#21 - Enki

Thank you so much for the warning. I'm very leery of cnet downloads. It used to be the "go to" place for downloads, virus scanned, reliable, and now all of their downloads are bundled with crap.

I downloaded a program from them less than a week ago, and aside from the fact that it didn't do what it was supposed to, it messed up the three browsers on my system...I almost cried when I saw that butt-ugly conduit search replacing my usual windows. It's been a few days now and still my browsers bear the scars of all of the crapware. During install, I turned down everything that wasn't part of the program, too, but still ended up with conduit and something called show pass or pass show, which put a footer of ads at the bottom of my screen. It's a nightmare. :(

I like it! I didn't have an ap that could do this, & it was awful to try to catch a still from a vid before. I had a vid of my lil dog who passed away, and not enough stills, so it felt very important to me. Media player wouldn't let me use a screenshot tool to copy a frame. So was really difficult to get some stills out of that vid. True, I wouldn't pay that price for it, but it is a useful software, & I think some people are just grouchy today & wouldn't have given a good review to a free million bucks. And others just like to sound like they are techs or something, or think they must find fault to have a comment valued. One always has to read these comments with an open mind & then try the offer yourself to find out how it works for you & your own needs. Of all the above, I like the comments from Mike best.
To Wonderfox- what is the "surprise" supposed to be? Is the odd panel offer free or what? I actually can't tell, without downloading & installing it first, & I don't like to do that without knowing if I'm going to have to uninstall when I discover it costs $.
Wondersoft, thanks so much for this offer! :)

The program crashed after making an animated GIF the second and third time I tried it.

No option for looping the animation.

Many of the settings shown in the Help files are not available.

Image output quality is not so great.

I preferred the software at http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/video-to-picture-converter/ from June 14, 2010.

Uninstalling.

Thank you anyways, Giveaway of the Day.

Well, I never leave feedback but this time I thought why not. This is a great little program, it does what it advertises and it does it well. I had some old family video from the 60's and 70's and always wanted to get some photos from that era. I ran the program and I got my wish. The quality is as good as the film you put into it. Thank you
Works a treat on Windows 7 64bit.
Giveawayoftheday and WonderFox, keep it up :-)

Not sure what all of the whining is about. Installed fine in Win 7 HP x64, no issues at all. Even opens .flv movies. Creates beautiful .jpg pictures with no difficulty at all. (My only complaint is the installation is forced to WonderFox program folder in my start menu. I prefer to name products with meaningful names that are easy for me to remember. VERY small nit.) Thanks, GOTD and WonderFox!

#21 Enki_Amenra
Nothing nasty happened to me when I downloaded and installed my suggestion for the simple reason that I declined the offer of their toolbar during the installation procedure.
There was nothing sneaky in the installation as the offer of the toolbar was clearly stated.
So for anyone who wants a very useful frame extraction program I suggest they ignore your Rant and decline the offer of the toolbar during installation.

Great application/software. Thanks . Installed quick and does what it says on the box. I hardly ever find good software here. But this one is good.

#12:
Haven't read your comment before I posted. Don't confuse other people with your approximate knowledge:

1. ffmpeg does not use xvid unless you tell it to do so. If you don't have the xvid codec installed, you can use ffmpeg nonetheless. Example:
ffmpeg -c <codec name> ...

2. MP4 is a container, not a codec; it can store audio, video, subtitles, and whatever you want (e.g. multiple audio files).

3. xvid is not a an alternative to WMV and will never be, because WMV is Microsoft proprietary format for video encoded with Microsoft's proprietary codecs whilst xvid is free software (unlike divx). It is not a "mp4 video codec" either as you wrote it. Xvid is an alternative to DivX, and certainly not compatible with it. By "compatible" I suppose you meant a device (e.g. a DVD player) able to read both xvid and divx encoded videos. For example, many Microsoft devices are compatible only with WMV.

4. AVI is not a codec, it's a container. You can put any codec (Cinepak, ...) inside an AVI file. In this case, VirtualDub may not be able to open it, especially if it contains VBR audio.

#7:
So, considering what I said above, feel free to use ffmpeg as you wish. Besides, it is almost the unique multi-platform free library that lets you do exactly what you want the way you want. And you're not limited to encoding/decoding.

You can also extract all frames like this:
ffmpeg -i video.flv -re -y -an image%4d.bmp
where an=no audio (not needless to say), re=video frame rate automatically taken from video source (use -r XXX otherwise), y=overwrite output files, and .bmp=an image not transcoded (no risk of losing details like JPG and faster than PNG, at the cost of huge disk space consumption). If you plan to have more than 9999 files, change the %4d accordingly. Of course, you can extract only a portion of the video, or extract every X second(s).

#8 XP-Man, you should read the comments section before you suggest a download to members who may not be able to recognize a bad download.

From the comments sections of your link:




"INSTALLS SPAM TOOLBAR THAT CANNOT BE UNINSTALLED"

June 28, 2012 | By spazzychalk

Version: Free Video to JPG Converter 5.0.13

Pros

INSTALLS SPAM TOOLBAR THAT CANNOT BE UNINSTALLED

Cons

INSTALLS SPAM TOOLBAR THAT CANNOT BE UNINSTALLED

Summary

INSTALLS SPAM TOOLBAR THAT CANNOT BE UNINSTALLED


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I'd venture to say this is the 'Conduit/DLC5 Toolbar' pile of junk that some downloads sneak it into your system.

It AUTOMATICALLY changes your home page, it AUTOMATICALLY changes your default search engine, it AUTOMATICALLY installs a terrible toolbar, it is very tiring - with a lot of steps needed to remove these crap-piles.

Even using the best uninstaller and removing any left-over files doesn't always completely remove it. In most cases, Win8/8.1 users are left with a modified registry and an alert every 'Start-Up' that says, "Background Container/Conduit Background Container" missing.

It's tricky to remove this for an average user and it's positioned in a place where just one wrong move could cause catastrophic system failure and those wrong moves are very easy to make - regardless how careful you are.

Thanks for the suggestion of a potentially better option to this GAOTD, but those irate member comments were an instant warning to leave the room and never look back.

What is the difference between WonderFox Video to Picture Converter 1.1 from January 18, 2014 -- and Video to Picture Converter from from June 14, 2010?

Compare these:

(Item 1)
Video to Picture Converter (June 14, 2010)
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/video-to-picture-converter/
http://www.watermark-software.com/video-to-picture/video-to-picture.html
http://www.watermark-software.com/video-to-picture/video-to-picture-tutorial.html
http://www.watermark-software.com/video-to-picture/video-to-picture-screenshot/video-to-picture-Screenshot-main.html
http://www.watermark-software.com/video-to-picture/images/main.jpg

(Item 2)
WonderFox Video to Picture Converter 1.1 (January 18, 2014)
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/video-to-picture-converter-1-1/
http://www.videoconverterfactory.com/video-to-picture-converter/
http://www.videoconverterfactory.com/video-to-picture-converter/images/item1.jpg
http://www.mostiwant.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/WonderFox-Video-to-Picture-Converter.jpg

Also, what is the difference between WonderFox Video to Picture Converter -- and WonderFox Video to GIF Converter?

Compare these:

(Item 2 again)
WonderFox Video to Picture Converter
http://www.videoconverterfactory.com/video-to-picture-converter/
http://www.mostiwant.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/WonderFox-Video-to-Picture-Converter.jpg

(Item 3)
WonderFox Video to GIF Converter
http://www.videoconverterfactory.com/video-to-gif-converter/
http://img.brothersoft.com/screenshots/softimage/w/wonderfox_video_to_gif_converter-517505-13861464250.jpeg

All three seem awfully similar to me.

Oh, & while it can create "pictures", it has no way to make a "contact sheet" out of those pictures.
You might think that would be a feature it would have incorporated.

A "Still GIF (*.gif)" is in reality a PNG.

UI could be better, with the whole "Output" dialog included in the main interface.

The only overwrite options are to or not to overwrite.
No automatic renaming or anything like that.

Resize is very slow & resource intensive.
Perhaps that's the nature of the beast?

I could see one using the Brighten or Gray Scale filters.
The others...?

On some dialogs, if you want to overwrite a selection, you need a leading digit.
Like Output Rate; will accept "0.25" but not ".25".

I have always used Imagegrab, its free and does a nice job and is also portable.

Home page: http://paul.glagla.free.fr/imagegrab_en.htm
Download link: http://paul.glagla.free.fr/fichiers/imagegrab_50en.zip

GOM player does this. You can capture single frames or successive frames, as many as you like, Oh yeah, it's completely free.

#7:
Actually, there is only one format to use: the one that gives best results, i.e. either uncompressed or not (.bmp, .tiff, .png, ...). Then for batch processing, Irfanview can do a lot if you go through each option (just don'select manually a transparency color, lol).

#6 (xp man):
Forget your old software. Get Daum Potplayer. Load a video file. The "K" shortcut opens a bunch of video capture options. Haven't tried them but the possibilities go way beyond what's today's GOTD offers. And the output quality should be OK, by judging what it does with thumbnails.

Trying to reconcile the through-the-roof rating with the almost-universally-negative reviews. You zany GOTD'ers! ;-) Guess I'll just try it out myself.

Free Video to JPG Convertor looks pretty sweet too - thanks for the tip XP-Man!

I don't really see the need for this as I've been capturing and mixing frames with VLC for years.

Installation routine suggest 'Program Files' - okay for english Windows-Versions, not for other languages, but can be set by user. Today's standard is the windows path for programs.

Very high memory consumption (but okay for a tool like this).

Cannot detect anamorph video (i.e. PAL 720x576 in 16:9), BUT the output can be set manually (i.e 1024x576).

Registration details are stored in the file 'Setup.ini' within the programs folder. Therefore this tool is portable.

It's a keeper. Even if you don't need it now, just make a copy (or zip) the folder for later use.

I do a round about way to get an image from a video - use a screen capture program like garwin and save it in the format you want eg jpeg .. crop the image after and Bob's your uncle -lol .

The following freeware program is much more useful than today's download in my opinion:-
http://download.cnet.com/Free-Video-to-JPG-Converter/3000-2194_4-10764760.html

It allows many different options for the way frames are extracted, if combined with one of the many free video converters to modify the frame size it allows a much better combination of functions than today's download and for free!

@ #6 - xpman - I believe you are thinking of VirtualDub. It is free at http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net and it does all this plus more.

Well, not all. As you said, picture format output is limited to just a couple image formats, but it's main function is to be a nice little video editor.

It is limited to avi video, but with the zillions of converters offered here, that should not be a huge drawback.

I tried this on Win8 and it's OK. But the only advantage of this over VD is the many formats it handles.

A number of years ago I had a freeware program (unfortunately forgot its name) that would extract images from video, if memory serves me correctly it would only do it for one type.
Having said that it was very flexible in the way it extracted video, for example every so many frames, a number of equally spaced frames.
I anticipated today's program would work in a similar fashion and that it would do much more for such a high price.
It has none of the above useful features but, as #3 Karl correctly points out, a number of useless features.
I hope someone will offer something similar that is worth having, today's offering is far too limited to be of much use and way overpriced!

Installed fine on XPSP3,
So I tried it on an HD m2ts file, output as "BEST" - ani gif isn't that great. Many artifacts.
So I tried .tga frames as they suppose to give best quality ... but than I found no good interlaced frames. I can't find any DE-intelace option .
This is a major drawback of such software

installed fine and thats were the good part stops, I tried it on a home movie, it took 4589 snaps and out of all of them only 6 pics were worth keeping and they were not that good

uninstalled

Installed and registered without problems on a win 8.1 64 Bit system.

Difficult to formulate my impression.

This program takes a video and creates pictures. Serial pictures. The output rate can be chosen between a whatever high rate to 0,5 pictures per second. This is simply lousy bad programming, because you can choose 100 pictures per second from a video with a framerate of 24 fps and if you want to take a picture every 10 second, you cannot use the slider, but you must type in by hand.

My second claim is the program window, which cannot be resized. On my big screen I want to resize windows to the point, where I can really see something...

On a "special effect" (called "special efficay")window on the right site you can manipulate the produced images. The programmer must have misunderstood something. He was happy to include a free picture manipulation library, of course. But why the hell should one "emboss", "blur" or "green" the images?

You can choose to take an image from the video by yourself, but it is missing an automatic scene detection.

I choose a frame to take a picture and detected that the video controls are not standard. The "pause" button does not switch between "pause" and "play". Should in my opinion.

I enlarged the picture and choose between the three different interpolation method. Again : Why the hell should I choose "sawtooth"? The programmer thinks in funny picture manipulation.

I'll try a verdict : easy to use, when you really want to take a picture every second from a video or make an animated gif with pictures, taken every 0,5 seconds. And blur these. Why should I do this?

No real use for me. Uninstalled via reboot.

Thanks GOATD and Wonderfox.

Thanks for this awesome giveaway.
I was using the trial version and now I can use full version :)

Useful Guide for Users to 100% Successfully Use the Product
Step 1. Download Zip package from GOTD
Step 2. Unzip the Package and run setup.exe to install the software.
Step 3. Open “read me” txt file, use the registration code to register it.

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