Author Topic: Capturing/Grabbing frames from FLV Videos (Or finding download link for full?)  (Read 460 times)

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-bioshock-infinite/715509

I'm trying to capture frames from this interview for a wiki. It is the only video featuring this exclusive gameplay footage (near the end). But the download area is empty, and all I have is the .flv video off the site itself. Camtasia Studio can't read it, and I'd rather keep conversions down to a minimum. I found programs that can grab from .flv files, but they watermark since they are all trial software. IrfanView can open and capture, but the actual capture command seems third hand and the range of frame exporting is imprecise since I can't actually tell where the numbered frames occur within the program. It's 46000 frames or something, anyway.

I need help either finding the full video download in a common format for editing, or a program that can capture frames from it without watermarks or excess difficulty. Help?


You could buy Flash.

prtsc?

I've found that Print Screen's quality is sub-par. The more direct, the better. Besides, a lot of video players prevent that from working. And editing out the background is annoying, anyway.

You could buy Flash.

Buy Flash? And to do what? Flash could open it, but capture frames?

Are we talking about single frames, or scenes, cause there's many ways to grab single frames.

I've found that Print Screen's quality is sub-par. The more direct, the better. Besides, a lot of video players prevent that from working. And editing out the background is annoying, anyway.
...Sub-par? It takes an exact photo.

Download DownloadHelper, see if that works.
I think that's what it's called. It's for Firefox.

I had an addon for Firefox that let me download any flash video as a .flv or .avi, but I think it's incompatible with 5 now.

Are we talking about single frames, or scenes, cause there's many ways to grab single frames.

I want a few specific frames, but I'd still take frames around it to compare and see which is clearest and such. These images are essential to the wiki at the moment, as they are the first and currently only occurrences of some key figures and we'd like some display of them.

Video Snapshot Wizard was the most promising, as it reduced the lag my computer experiences on higher definition videos while allowing me to cut frames, but they put watermarks on the end result for obvious reasons:

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...Sub-par? It takes an exact photo.

Download DownloadHelper, see if that works.
I think that's what it's called. It's for Firefox.

I do not trust an image saved in the cache plainwise to retain perfect quality, but again, my main problem is having to cut each frame out. It feels like the long way.

Also, that's how I downloaded the .flv from GameTrailers.

I had an addon for Firefox that let me download any flash video as a .flv or .avi, but I think it's incompatible with 5 now.

Firefox 5? I just remembered as I read your post that Downloadhelper has a converter, so maybe that would work because it is more direct, but I'd still want to avoid any quality lose in conversions. I had that with another video, and the end result was ugly and blurry.

I never experience any quality loss when Print Screening.
Also, it'd be easy to edit out a watermark with Photoshop.

I never experience any quality loss when Print Screening.
Also, it'd be easy to edit out a watermark with Photoshop.

I like to believe it is slightly optimized to fit into the clipboard cache of my crappy computer. And anyway, the "watermark" was a solid white bar with black text saying "Unregistered version blah" on it. And even if it was a real watermark, I'd rather preserve the original pixels.

Yes, I'm obsessive, but I have my reasons. Reasons no one would care to hear. I'm going to try other things real quick.