For longer than we'd care to admit, Mike and I wondered, How the heck do these guys get those great action photos?? We were very frustrated with digital cameras in general, and their notoriously slow shutter speed, (Yes we are aware of some exceptions), until we took the time online to get educated about 'Frame Capture'. These two words and the inexpensive software to actually make this possible changed the way we looked at those spectacular action photos. They were now possible to create, even by photography challenged newbies like us!
Just about all new digital cameras these days have movie capability, as do more than 50% of cell phones. So just how easy or hard is it to Find, and then Extract, that BEST frame from a little video clip? After trying to figure out several FREE frame capture softwares, we were again thoroughly disgusted and completely frustrated. There has to be a low cost, simple, easy to understand, and quick way to use Frame Capture software out there in Cyber-Land, somewhere, we thought.
There is and it's name is "
Frame Shots". So, if you have limited time, or just are frustrated with the free crap out there, you can pay $24.95 for a years use of Frame Shots and have your beautiful Still shot plucked from your movie in five minutes or less to post on GBO or send to a friend via Email. We tried 3 low cost softwares and this was the best and easiest to use we found. There are others, to be sure.
We encourage you to try a few demo versions and decide which one is best for you. We have no association with Frame Shots, Inc.
Some examples are below,
Tracy and Mike
This series of individual frames were from a movie Mike and I made of GGaskill's 30mm rifled gun he fired at last years Montana Model Cannon Shoot in Cut Bank, Montana. You can use can use this software to capture frames from movies shot in any speed. This movie was shot in 600 FPS, but we have had similar results with capturing frames from movies we shot in std. speed which is 28 to 30 FPS.
Does anybody know what that long black plume is? We've seen lots of blanks with this phenomenon, but never a projectile shot before this one.
This is the frame most people are looking for, the muzzle blast!
Then, there is the smoke, lots and lots of smoke. That's exactly what's wrong with smokeless powder, it doesn't have enough Smoke!
Do you see the projectile yet?
Oh, there it is!!
It's gone.