extracting screencaps from videos

[vmalar]

Are there any tools I can use to extract screen captures in order to provide images for videos? Also, any tools to do the small pictures that show the video progression at different times?

[Nbasder9]

@vmalar
I use this video thumbnail maker, you can make screen captures and it can also do these little images for video progression automatically. You can find it here.
Or you can find it by searching: "video thumbnail maker by scorp"

[eobox91103]

@vmalar The thumbnail maker will do those collages. There was another application (whose name I've forgotten) would also so collages and had tremendous flexibility, allowing one to select specific frames in the video to appear in the collage, the size of the thumbnails, etc....but it doesn't work under Windows 7 or later. (I don't know about the Mac environment.)

VLC Media Player also permits one to snap a specific frame out of a video at full size. If I'm posting a torrent, I like to use that to give an example of the quality of the video. Some older material isn't very crisp, and this way people can set their expectations accordingly.