About

Export Frames is one page that does one job: it pulls still images out of a video file you already have, without sending that file anywhere.

Who runs this site

Export Frames is run by one person, working alone, under the site name only. There is no company behind it, no team, and no support desk. The site exists because the tool was needed and the alternatives at the time wanted a copy of the video first.

What the tool does

You choose a local video file. Your browser decodes it in the tab, and the page either walks the file at a fixed interval (1, 2, 5, 10, or 30 seconds) or lets you park the playhead on a single moment and capture that frame. Each still can be downloaded on its own or as a ZIP of the ones you ticked. PNG and JPG are both available.

A longer description of what it can and cannot decode is on the tool page itself, under the tool.

Why it works this way

The design decision is simple: the video stays on your device. That single choice is what removes the upload button, the queue, the account, the watermark, and the wait. It also means the limits are yours and your browser's, not a server plan — a very long or very large file can still be too much for a browser tab, and the tool says so instead of failing quietly.

What this site does not do

• No account, no sign-up, no email required.
• No multi-file batch queue.
• No server-side processing, and no upload of your video.
• No stored history of what you extracted.
• No watermark on the frames you download.

How it stays free

The tool is free to use and hosting a page like this is cheap, because all the work happens in your browser. To cover the cost, the plan is to show third-party advertising alongside the written sections of the page. The privacy page explains what that will mean, and nothing here is written as an advertisement in disguise.

Typical uses

Grabbing a thumbnail, building a storyboard, collecting reference frames, or sampling a clip you own for a set of stills. If you need the audio, the frames, and a transcript from the same clip, you are in the wrong place — this tool only does pictures.