How to convert .m4v video to .png?

[member 428835]

Hi PF!

I have a .m4v video file that I want to convert frame-by-frame to .png files. Does anyone recommend software to do this? I'm using a Macintosh.

Thanks so much!

Josh

 

[newjerseyrunner]

Do you know how to use the UNIX terminal?

If you have Homebrew, just type

brew install ffmpeg

then

ffmpeg -i /path/to/video.mkv /path/to/output.png

You can probably also do it with VLC, but I'm not sure how. VLC uses ffmpeg last I knew.