My fav Image Software

For those that uploads vids There's a software called Video Snapshots Genius that's really helpful. All you do is load your video in it & it takes a pic every few seconds. There's also an option for you to time stamp your caps example if there's a slip (who ever looks at your video will know were is) All you do is click on the tools option & then standard options.

For those that saves loads of image sets you'll love this software! Advanced JPEG Compressor 2011 compresses any big image to a size of your choice. example (say an image is over 1mb) this software will Compress it/a full set in batch to a size you choose without shrinking your images or damaging the picture quality.

Thanks for links/info. To share my equivalents....

I did at one point pay for Video Thumbnails Maker which was/is a great program. But it's awkward to re-license given the number of times a year I end up having to rebuild my PC.

I've therefore moved onto an opensource way to achieve this via movie thumbnailer (using one of the front ends). Quick, easy, similar to say MPC thumbs, and also free.

For my caps I post, I use pHatch to set the format (round borders, shadow etc). Again opensource and free.

Both these tools work on both Windows and Linux (as I swap between these OS'es quite a bit across my various machines).

Any bulk graphics work tends to be either IrfanView or if processing specifically then say JPEGCrops (free)

mplayer is great for caps.

To do it manually one can:


and then hit lowercase 's' every time you want to take a single shot or uppercase 'S' to fire off screens till you hit it again.

The automatic way is to use the video out option for jpeg or png.


This dumps every frame as a png or jpeg. Then you can choose which ones you like and want to process. You can tell mplayer when to start and stop so you don't have to dump the whole vid.

If you use png ... your hard disk will fill up rapidly ... very rapidly but its nice to have a png image to start processing with ImageMagick if you fancy it.

Both are free and available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

I use scrot for screenshots and imageMagick or the GIMP for processing them.
For movie thumbnails I use mtn or ffmpeg
All in linux