Converting MP4 to JPG

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January 14, 2020
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Hi,

We have recently returned from a holiday and I have noticed that all my pictures are in the MP4 format.

It was a new camera and I must have pushed a wrong button so now I want to convert those MP4's to JPG. My question is can I do this in Adobe Photo Elements?

I am using Adobe Photoshop Elements 15.

Many thanks in advance.

Regards

Paul O'Halloran

How to

99jon

Legend

Panasonic says you can select the best focused frame and save a jpeg in camera.

Greg_S.

Community Expert

What make and model is your camera? Are you sure that it does not create a jpg thumbnail file of your video? My Sony does, but that may be according to my settings.

In any event, you can use VLC which is a free (and well-regarded) video player utility to play the video and create an image of a frame. You can download VLC from here. Instructions for saving a screen grab of the video may be found here. (Be careful of where you click to download. The webpage is full of ads for software.)

C

Condor1950Author

Participant

Hi Greg,

It's actually my wife's camera which is a Panasonic TZ110. We only just bought it before going on holidays. I guess I should have read the manual (not something I do btw). I have VLC which is a pretty good program so I will give it a crack. Thanks for that info.

I mainly shoot video in 4K on my Sony AX53 and I don't have any problems.

Cheers

99jon

Legend

All the video tools are now found in Premiere Elements and Adobe now sells Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements as a bundle. It used to be possible in older versions of PSE to use the menu:

File >> Import >> Frame from Video

That’s no longer possible and I don’t think that feature is available in PSE15.

The best you can do is to import the files into Organizer and play the preview from Organizer by double-clicking on the video thumbnail. Pause at the frame you want. Then make a screenshot. Open the screenshot in the PSE Editor, crop and save as jpeg. Screenshots are not perfect and the resolution will depend upon your monitor. I have a large Dell ultra-sharp monitor and get reasonable screenshots of 2560 x 1440 pixels.