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Hi there,
I have a folder of images and video files. I would like to be able to export all of the video files as still images. (just the first frame). I have found the "Capture Frame" function once you open the video, but I have several hundred of these, so I'm looking for a way to automate the process. Does anyone know how to do this in Lightroom Classic?
Thanks.
Eric
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Unfortunately, there isn't any easy way to automate this. Adobe didn't make this functionality available to plugins either. I think the best you could do is use a keyboard macro utility (e.g. Autohotkey on Windows), which will necessarily be fussy and take a bit to make work.
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If I remember correctly, in the past, I used the Plugin from Jeffrey Friedl-
http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/preview-extraction
Just testing now with this method-
1) Selected a folder and filtered for videos
2) [Ctrl+A] to select all videos
3) Ran the Plugin from MENU: Liibrary> Plugin Extras> Extract Preview Images
4) Result is a folder of JPGs that I can now import to the Catalog (& Rename, keyword, etc)-
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Thanks so much! I'll give this a try.
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"http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/preview-extraction"
Good solution!
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More thoughts-
@johnrellis You might know-Would I be right in sugggesting to make 1:1 previews before extracting?
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"Would I be right in sugggesting to make 1:1 previews before extracting?"
I don't think so. I just did a quick test on freshly imported 3840 x 2160 videos, and doing Library > Previews > Build 1:1 Previews produced the message "No 1:1 previews were built".
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