From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-10-17T22:41:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Small Quicktime *mov movies, snapshots, and pixels

Axel Etzold wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have many small Quicktime *.mov movies ( 1 min maximum playing
> time), showing drops of some liquid falling into a glass filled
> with that liquid and the like.
> Now, I'd like to extract a sequence of snapshot images taken at defined
> times from such a movie. These snapshots should be in some graphic format which I could open with Imagemagick/Rmagick 
> to access individual pixels and see how their colour evolves over time. (The latter is not a problem).
> 
> How could this extraction be done? 
Apparently transcode can do this:

http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode?Command_Examples/Splitting_A_Movie_Into_Frames

-- 
Alex