Grabbing stills from video simply and quickly (Photoshop)

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February 5, 2022
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I'm a little frustrated that my basic understanding of photoshop is holding me back.

I'm a wedding photographer tasked with pulling some still from video - not a difficult thing to do at all but to do it quickly is a different thing.

The super basic way, Find the spot I want to grab, marquee the frame, copy, paste as an image, flatten, save as. But it's time consuming and clunky this way.

So I set the above as an action but when it saves the next file always overwrites the previous one.

I've looked online at videos, how to's etc but they either relate to image processor, creating a script (no idea how to do that) or export a range to files. What appears to be bulk processing workloads.

Simply put, I just want to move through the video, grab and save to a folder to open later in Lightroom. I'm surprised there isn't an obvious way to do this so I'm hoping someone will say there is!

Thanks!

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Actions and scripting

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willthisnamedoAuthor

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Hey guys. There doesn't seem to be a clear way to do this so like Adobe's UI not scaling to 125% I'll pass this off as another unsolvable Adobe(ism).

My solution now is to export all 40gb of video to frames and I'll sift through them in Photomechanic.

It should be simple, like, obviously simple to slide through and grab a frame to jpeg multiple times and that functionality shouldn't be that complicated to do.

Thanks for all who commented and tried to help.

Kukurykus

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Your problem is very easy to solve. According to my question made 2 hours ago, while using your action, does your Save Step ask you where to save the new document, so the one that has no the path yet?