Right click the png snapshot file, select ‘Open With’ and then select ‘Paint’ to open MS Paint. Save a PNG file in JPEG format using Microsoft Paint PNG files can be opened/edited in most graphics viewers/programs (even the lowly Microsoft Paint) and resaved in JPEG or other format if you prefer as shown below. Now press the Save button to save your changes then close VLC – future snapshots will be taken when you press the new Hotkey you specified. If the new combination is already used by another action a warning message will appear – choose a different combination as the same hotkey can’t perform 2 different actions. Scroll down to (or use the search box to filter) the ‘Take video snapshot’ action.ĭouble click this action to open the ‘Hotkey For Take video snapshot’ message – now press the combination of keys you want to use as the new hotkey e.g. If you want to change that, select Tools \ Preferences then click the Hotkeys tab. The default shortcut is Shift+S to take a snapshot. If you change it to JPG the snapshots will not work and you will get a ‘Steaming/Transcoding failed’ error message. Warning: leave the ‘Format’ of the snapshots as the default – PNG. Now press the Save button to save your changes then close VLC – future snapshots should be saved in the file format you specified. You can also select/tick the ‘Sequential numbering’ tickbox if you wish to use sequential numbers (starting at 00001) instead of timestamps for the numbering e.g. In the Video Snapshots – Prefix section you can change the prefix from vlcsnap- to whatever you like (e.g. If you want them to be saved with a different filename format in future, from the VLC menu bar select Tools \ Preferences then click the Video tab (same as above). By default the filename of saved snapshots is the Prefix of vlcsnap- followed by the timestamp (date and time saved). Now press the Save button to save your changes then close VLC – future snapshots should be saved in the folder you specified. In the Video Snapshots – Directory section, ‘Browse’ to the folder where you want them to be saved then press OK. If you want them to be saved to a different folder in future, from the VLC menu bar select Tools \ Preferences then click the Video tab as shown below:
Tip: there is a Hotkey shortcut – instead of using the menu bar you can also press Shift+S keys to take a snapshot.īy default the location where snapshots are saved is (My) Pictures.
Now click ‘Video’ in the menu bar and then click ‘Take Snapshot’ – a small thumbnail picture of the snapshot and the filename appears at the top left of the video and disappears after a couple of seconds. Once installed, play your video in VLC and pause it (press Pause button or press the Spacebar) when you reach the position you want to take a snapshot of.
#VLC SCREENSHOT INSTALL#
Take A Video Snapshot using VLC – First, if you don’t already have it, install VLC – the latest version is available from VideoLAN here.
#VLC SCREENSHOT FREE#
VLC is an extremely popular free media player for Windows, Mac and Linux – it recently achieved the milestone of over 1 billion downloads from the developers’ servers. It is easy to take a snapshot of a video frame using VLC.
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