Video → JPG · PNG
Video to JPG converter
Pause a video at the exact frame you want and save it as a JPG or PNG — captured from the file itself, not a screenshot, so the quality is the video's own.
A frame is saved at the video's full resolution. JPG suits photos; PNG keeps sharp edges and is the honest choice for text or diagrams.
At a glance
- Price
- Free
- Account
- None needed
- Upload
- None — the frame is captured in your browser tab, nothing is sent to a server
- Input
- MP4, MOV, WEBM, MKV, M4V
- Output
- JPG or PNG at the video's own resolution
- File size
- 1 GB per file
- Works on
- Recent Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari (Firefox 130+, Safari 16.4+)
How to capture a frame from a video
Add the video
Drop an MP4, MOV, WEBM or MKV file on the box above; a preview player appears below the file list.
Find the moment
Play or scrub the preview, pause on the frame you want, and press "Use the paused moment" — the exact timestamp fills in for you.
Download the picture
Press Capture the frame and the still appears with its pixel size, named after the video and the moment (holiday-0m12s.jpg).
A frame, not a screenshot
A screenshot copies whatever your screen happened to show — the player's chrome, the display's scaling, a compression pass on top. This tool asks the browser's video decoder for the frame at a given timestamp instead, and encodes those exact pixels. The result is a clean image at the video's native resolution, usually 1920×1080 or the phone camera's own size.
The timestamp is accurate to the frame the preview shows: what you paused on is what you get. Both outputs come from the same pixels — JPG for a smaller, photographic file, PNG when the frame contains text, UI or crisp lines that JPG would blur.
Video to JPG questions
Is my file uploaded anywhere?
No. The frame is decoded and encoded in this browser tab; neither the video nor the picture is sent anywhere.
What resolution will the picture have?
The video's own — 1920×1080 for a 1080p recording, or whatever the camera recorded. Nothing is upscaled, and nothing is cropped to the player window.
JPG or PNG — which should I pick?
JPG for photos and screenshots of natural scenes; it is much smaller and the loss is invisible at high quality. PNG for diagrams, slides and text, where JPG's compression shows around letters and edges.
Can I capture several frames at once?
One frame per run is the design: the name carries its timestamp, so capture, download, move the playhead, capture again — each file lands beside the last with a distinct name.
The frame looks soft — why?
Because that is how the video was encoded: fast motion and low-bitrate video blur individual frames. Pick a stiller moment for the sharpest result.