Extract a frame every N seconds from a video

Created by

Salih Küçükkayış

Actor

Video to Scenes — Scene Detection, Keyframes, Transcript

Grab one still every N seconds from a video file, for thumbnails, previews, dataset building or vision models. Each frame comes with its timestamp and a public image link, plus a free contact sheet of all frames. Example: Big Buck Bunny (10 minutes), one frame every 30 seconds, 20 frames for about $0.05. No scene scan is charged in this mode.

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Video to Scenes — Scene Detection, Keyframes, Transcriptsaliga/video-to-scenes

URL

File

Duration (s)

Scenes

+5 fields

Input

Video links(required):https://archive.org/download/BigBuckBunny_124/Content/big_buck_bunny_720p_surround.mp4

What to extract:interval

Every N seconds:30

Max frames per video:20

Image format:jpeg

Max image width (px):1280

Output fields

URL

File

Duration (s)

Scenes

Frames

Contact sheet

Billed

Note

Error

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