What resolution is the saved frame?

The video's own, whatever your screen is. A 4K clip gives a 3840 by 2160 image even on a laptop display.

Can I save several frames at once?

Grab them one at a time and they stack up in the results, with a button to download all of them as a ZIP. For a frame every second across a whole video, the Video to Images tool does that in one go.

Why does the frame look slightly different from the player?

Usually colour management. A player may apply the video's colour profile while a canvas reads the decoded pixels as they are. The difference is small and the canvas version is the one the file actually contains.

Video Frame Grabber

Scrub to a moment, step a frame either way until it is the right one, and save it at the video's own resolution. Each grab is kept, so several stills can be collected and downloaded together.

Choose a video or drop it hereMP4, MOV or WebM, up to 500 MB.

Runs entirely in your browser. Your files are never uploaded.

How to use Video Frame Grabber

1Choose a video, or drag it onto the box.
2Scrub to roughly the right place.
3Step a frame at a time until the picture is the one you want.
4Grab it, and repeat for as many frames as you need.

Better than a screenshot

A screenshot of a playing video gives you whatever the screen had: the picture scaled to the window, player controls on top of it, and whatever the display did to the colour. A 4K video screenshotted on a 1080p monitor loses three quarters of its pixels.

This reads the decoded frame itself, so a 4K video gives a 3840 by 2160 image with nothing drawn over it.

Landing on the right frame

The slider moves in hundredths of a second, which is finer than a frame at any normal rate. The step buttons move by a thirtieth of a second, which lands on the next frame for 30 fps footage and within one frame for anything between 24 and 60.

Seeking is exact rather than approximate: the picture shown is the one that will be saved, which is the part most frame grabbers get wrong by drawing before the seek has finished.

Which format to save

PNG is lossless and the right choice for anything with text, a diagram or a screen recording in it, where JPEG's ringing around sharp edges is obvious.

JPEG is a fraction of the size on camera footage and the difference is invisible at quality 90. WebP is smaller again at the same quality and is accepted everywhere except some older software.

Limits

Twelve grabs are kept at a time. Download them before going past that.
The step buttons assume about 30 frames a second, since the exact rate is not available for every container.
MP4, MOV and WebM open. AVI, MKV and HEVC files usually will not.
The video itself is not changed or saved.

Frequently asked questions

What resolution is the saved frame?: The video's own, whatever your screen is. A 4K clip gives a 3840 by 2160 image even on a laptop display.
Can I save several frames at once?: Grab them one at a time and they stack up in the results, with a button to download all of them as a ZIP. For a frame every second across a whole video, the Video to Images tool does that in one go.
Why does the frame look slightly different from the player?: Usually colour management. A player may apply the video's colour profile while a canvas reads the decoded pixels as they are. The difference is small and the canvas version is the one the file actually contains.