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Recently someone asked me how to turn a video into a photo on iPhone. It is a sport video and he wants to take photos out of the video for sharing on his blog. The easiest way to extract pictures from a video on iPhone or iPad is to take a screenshot on the iOS device. Just open the Camera Roll or Photos app on the device, find and play the video, then pause at the video frame which you like to grab and save as image file, finally press the home and sleep buttons simultaneously. You can refer to previous linked article for more details about how to capture screen on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. The method to capture screen on iPhone X can also be found in the above guide.
- The tutorial uses Video to Picture Converter, which is an easy-to-use Windows application for converting video to images. It does well in converting video to pictures sequence as well as making snapshot from any video. Customer Reviews on Video to Picture Converter.
- Online-Convert is a free video to an image sequence converter online tool that supports a wide range of formats. Using the program, you can add the desired video files from your PC, Dropbox, Google Drive, or URL. For advanced settings, you can choose the pictures' quality to be extracted, select its size, and choose the color.
- The Convert Video tool lets create MP3, GIF, JPEG or MP4 files from a video file. After you upload a video to Kapwing you just have to click on the JPEG option and use the slider below the Preview Window to specify the frame you want to convert into a photo.
- Oct 09, 2020 Lively Converter is an application that can help you convert videos into live photos, convert live photos into videos, photos and GIFs. It's only available for iPhone and iPad running or iOS 10.0 and later. Steps: Go to App Store on your iPhone and search for Lively Converter and get it to your device.
This method however has its drawbacks. For example, it is not very easy to find the best picture from the video as you can't preview the frames one by one. What's worse, the picture quality is limited to your display resolution. For instance, if you extract a frame or picture from a video on iPhone 7 Plus, the image will be 1920*1080p, it is 1334*750p for iPhone 7, 2048*1536p for iPad Air 2, iPad mini 4, iPad mini 2. What you get may not be the actual full resolution of source video file.
Method 1. Extract photos from videos on iPhone iPad using the Grabber
This video to photo converter for iPhone is a light-weight app makes grabbing stills from video files snap. No trip to the computer is needed. You can import recorded videos from Camera roll to this video to photo grabber app.
Then inspect the video frame by frame to locate the precise frame you want, tap the Save button in the top right corner of the screen, the still picture will be saved to your Camera Roll.
Method 2. Converting video to pictures on computer – FREE tools
I tried several ‘video to photo converter' app downloaded from App Store trying to get still picture with full HD quality. But none of them can do that unless you upgrade to the premium version. In fact, these free apps I have tried can only export very low quality pictures from videos, even worse than a screenshot on the device. It is difficult to find a really free app that can export photos from videos on iPhone and iPad. Whereas on the computer, we have a lot of free software tools can do that, notably VLC media player. Thus if you still trying to figure out how to export full HD high resolution images from a video on iPhone, iPad or iPod touch without any fee, we recommend you export the videos to a computer first, then use VLC media player take a video snapshot on your computer. It is free and open source.
Method 3. Convert video to photo using Photoshop?
Photoshop is a very popular image editor with web designers. It is best-known as a image editor, in fact we can also find some very useful video editing features, such as converting photos to slideshow video, making animated GIF pictures, extracting frames from videos.
Update Jun 2018: this article was originally published in Dec 2016; video to photo grabber app was added to this guide in this update.
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The naked truth: an average person spends at least 2 hours daily watching videos on YouTube and other social media.
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Give them some quality content to enjoy! To join a 'vloggers' club' you don't even have to shoot a professional video, an image sequence with a gripping soundtrack will come in handy.
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How to create a video out of an image sequence
Video To Picture Software
Upload images
To select one or several files from your personal device, click the big blue button.
To use content stored online, call the drop-down menu and choose one of the two options:
- Import a picture from your cloud storage account: Google Drive or Dropbox.
- Paste a direct URL to it from social media or any other online source.
Turn an image sequence into a video
Add more images if needed by dragging them to the timeline below the player. Alternatively, click 'Add more files' on the right side and use the ways from the first step.
Fit the frame with borders or crop it. If you are going to share your clip on social media, choose the corresponding aspect ratio preset: Instagram, Story, YouTube or Facebook.
Set the image duration. This setting will be applied to pictures only, GIFs and videos will stay as they are. Mind that all the images have the same duration.
Tick the box 'Crossfade' to make your visual look more skillful.
When the shooting is fine and ready, add music. Click 'Add audio' or hit the up-facing arrow to select one of two other options.
Click the scissors icon to set the soundtrack duration manually or with the help of slidebars. Adjust the soundtrack volume. If the original video has its own music, you can either mute it, or set the volume.
Choose an output format. Talking about social media, we'd recommend sticking to MP4 or MOV.
Click 'Create' and get ready to check the result.
Download the clip
Play your freshly created video to get sure that it's exactly what you wanted. Click 'Back to edit' if the clip is imperfect. Otherwise, save it to your cloud storage account or personal device.