Does anyone know of some linux software that will allow me to extract images from a video clip? My cam corder has a still shot option on it that I use a lot. I can't find any way to do it in KDEnlive or openshot, which forces me to go back to Windows and I don't want to do that. Unfortunately Corel's (and you know how I feel about them) Video studio will do it. I had counted on KDEnlive replacing Video Studio but it looks like that might not be possible.

Virtual Box, windows then install program you need and then do what you need close Virtual Box, move on
Only if you can't find another solution as I understand this may not be 100% desirable

Use mplayer via command line:

-ss <timepos> Seek to given (seconds or hh:mm:ss) position
-frames <number> Play/convert only first <number> frames, then quit.
-vo <gif89a,jpeg,pnm,png,tga>

Well, I can still do it in windows but I was hoping to not use Corel's software. My goal is to be completely Microsoft free and Corel free and only use Linux for everything.

On my Ubuntu, VLC media player does frame-by-frame and snapshot...

I'll try that too, thanks.

Install Kino from your repository. Import your video. You can export a single frame or a range of frames from the export tab.

A couple of notes about Kino..

1) You might have to run Kino using this command: padsp kino
(padsp allows kino to run properly with pulse audio.)

2) Kino converts videos to raw digital video format (.dv) before loading so be aware of that.

3) If kino can't import your video, you may need to manually convert it to .dv format using ffmpeg.

example: converts .avi to .dv (works with most other video formats as well)

If you start mplayer with the "-vf screenshot" option, then you can watch the movie interactively and press the "s" key whenever you want to create a PNG image (saved automatically using the name "shot####.png"). Alternately, you can press "S" (SHIFT+s) and start saving all frames (using same filenaming scheme) until you press "S" again. This works whether you are viewing in realtime, slow-motion, or single-frame.

A few useful keys when navigating with mplayer:

SPACE = pause movie
PERIOD = step single frame forward (while paused)
] = Increase speed
[ = Decrease speed
LEFT/RIGHT cursors = skip backward or forward 10 seconds
UP/DOWN cursors = skip backward or forward 60 seconds[/list]

Oh, and considering this is a GIMP forum, it should probably be mentioned that the GAP (GIMP Animation Package) has a pretty decent interface for extracting frames (found under "Video->Split Video into Frames->Extract Videorange").

I have VLC player, I forgot it would do that although i've never done it. I think KMPlayer will do it too. So one of them should work, thanks

I'll try that too, and see which is the easiest and gets the best results.

I was also going to mention utilizing the Gimp Animation Package.
There is also another filter that works well for this.I can not remember where i got it though.
Searching the registry should reveal its download link though.

Macgo Mac Blu-ray Player could make a screenshot when the movie playback.