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User Guide



Opening Video Files

Choose File > Open and select the movie file(s). Or drag & drop the file(s) to the Frame Grab application icon.

Exporting a Current Displayed Frame

Choose File > Export..., or click the Export button on the toolbar.
Set up the image format, and then click the Save button.

Adding frames to the Queue

To add a current displayed frame:
Choose Operation > Add to Queue, or click the Add to Queue button on the toolbar, or drag & drop the frame to the Queue area.

Continuous Grabbing

Choose Operation > Continuous Grab..., or click the Continuous button on the toolbar. Enter the number of frames you want to add, and choose a unit, frame or second, in the pop-up menu, and enter the interval. And then click the OK button.

Exporting Frames in the Queue

Choose File > Export Queue..., or click the Export Queue button on the toolbar.
Set up the file names format and the images format, and then click the Save button.

Video Time Display Formats

There are two display formats for a time less than one second of video time. Click on the time display area to switch between the following formats.

In timescale, a time less than one second is displayed as a fraction, and the denominator is the timescale.
In the example below the timescale is 600,
The current playing time is 1 hour 31 minutes 20 and 522/600 seconds,
The video duration is 1 hour 52 minutes 01 and 533/600 seconds.

In centiseconds, the times less than one second are...
522 / 600 = 0.87 seconds,
533 / 600 = 0.888333...., rounded to two decimal places, 0.89 seconds

Embedding Date-Time, Location

To embed a date-time and location information as Exif metadata into a frame image file, check the "Date-Time" and "GPS Location Information" buttons on the save sheet.

If a movie file does not have the location information, the "GPS Location Information" button will be grayed out.

Assigning Date-Time to Video Time

The date-time pop-up button, in the lower left corner of the window, shows a shooting start or creation date-time of a video. A date-time to embed into a frame image is the date-time that adds the video time of the frame to the shooting start date-time. You can insert a new assignment of a starting date-time to a video time during the video. This will be the starting date-time for the date-times of frames after the video time inserted.

Inserting a New Assignment

Move the playhead to a video time you want to insert (00:15:58.495 in the image below), and then click the date-time popup button. Choose the menu item Assign Date-Time to "00:15:58.495"...

Set any date-time on the sheet.
Times less than one second are in Timescale for Video Time and in milliseconds for Date-Time.
Date-Time format: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.sss ±hh:mm (timezone offset is required)
The maximum number of assignments is 20 in a video file.

Play Selection Only

To select a portion of a movie, choose Controls > Play Selection Only to appear the In / Out selection markers, and then move the markers. To fine-tune the selection, select a marker and move it with the left or right arrow key.

When you choose Controls > Deselect, the selection markers move to the playhead.

Play Control Keyboard Shortcuts

Space bar or returnPlay or Stop
command (⌘) + ↑Go to the beginning of a movie
command (⌘) + ↓Go to the end of a movie
option (⌥) + command (⌘) + ↑Go to the selection start
option (⌥) + command (⌘) + ↓Go to the selection end
Go back one frame
Go forward one frame
command (⌘) + ←Go back 5 seconds (Default)
command (⌘) + →Go forward 5 seconds (Default)
option (⌥) + command (⌘) + ←Go back 30 seconds (Default)
option (⌥) + command (⌘) + →Go forward 30 seconds (Default)
option (⌥) + ←Go back 1 second (Default)
option (⌥) + →Go forward 1 second (Default)
control (⌃) + option (⌥) + ←Go back 0.5 seconds (Default)
control (⌃) + option (⌥) + →Go forward 0.5 seconds (Default)
JSpeed down
KNormal speed
LSpeed up
MReverse play
Customizing Skip Times

Choose Controls > Customize Skip Times...
You can set them to 0.5, 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, or 30 seconds.