Tips for Extracting Photos from Your Video
Being a Part of the Magic
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For some reason my family seems to be frequently picked to be in various stage shows at Disney World throughout many of our vacations spent there.
Our very first trip I appeared in the Hoop De Doo Revue much to my children’s delight and my embarrassment. 😉
They even put me in a pioneer dress and hat!
- Our daughter square danced with dancers in Frontierland and my husband has appeared in 3 shows – twice in Flights of Wonder and once in a magic show on the Disney Magic cruise ship.
These moments, of course, are so much fun and just add to the general magic of being in Walt Disney World. I like to think of these moments as extra magic moments. Funny though, I have yet to scrapbook any of them even though they are some of my favorite Disney memories of all time.
Maybe because these moments are often hard to photograph in the midst of the excitement and laughter? I think that must be it because I sat down to continue my Flights of Wonder pages and when I went to get the photos I realized I had almost NONE of the first time my husband was called on stage.
No… I Shot Video
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I happened to click on one of the few photos I did have and instead a video clip began to play, much to my surprise. Then I remembered. I shot video the entire time.
My husband had his camera on stage with him and then when we compared notes afterwards not only did I not have photos but he also was not successful in capturing the flying owl coming directly towards him!
“Did you get a photo of it” “No, didn’t you?” “No….I shot video” … is how the conversation went.
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Flights of Wonder at Animal Kingdom is a great bird show for all ages and an added fun aspect is that audience members are called to come up on stage and interact with the birds or help to demonstrate tricks that the birds will perform. The first time my husband was called up they had him sit with 2 other people while a Great Horned Owl flew directly towards them.
The idea was to have a camera ready to snap a picture up close and personal. I was so excited that he was selected because my husband is a huge bird lover.
There must be a way to get a photo from a video
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So now here I am 3 years later wanting to scrap that fun memory. I sat for a minute thinking maybe I would have to do a photoless layout with journaling until I remembered there must be a way to get photos from the video itself. I googled it and within 5 minutes I was scrolling video frames and saving pics left and right.
I simply opened up the video clip in Windows Live Movie Maker and saved the photos I wanted. I found that the only issue is the overall quality so I decided I would keep the photos small and do a filmstrip type layout.
I remembered I had some new templates by Scrappin’ with Liz that were going to be perfect -so I got busy. I also had some new unique templates by Fiddle Dee Dee that have stamped feathers – how perfect!
From Nothing to Two Pages
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Even though I had to keep the photos fairly small and the photo quality is nothing special I was so pleased with the final result.
I went from thinking I had nothing to scrap with… to 2 full pages!
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I had so much fun adding the Project Mouse word art. I also couldn’t get over how perfect these 2 templates were for the subject matter and the photos.
The Macaw background paper fit into the feathered template wonderfully. I kept the template feathers exactly as they were – only recoloring a couple of them.
Another thought I had when I was deciding to figure out how to scrap this was that I could have used a QR code on my page and uploaded the video somewhere but it seemed so laborious to me and somewhat impermanent.
I also thought about putting the video clip on a tiny little flash drive and putting it in a little envelope that I could attach to the page – hybrid scrapping style. I still might do that.
But in the meantime I achieved a fully scrapped page by pulling pics right from the video itself. So I encourage you to think about using your video clips if you find yourself short on photos for an important memory that you want to scrap!
Keep scrapping!
Scrapbook Page credits:
- papers, bird sticker, leaves, brown twine: Wild Thing by Paula Kesselring
- Paper Word Art and black brad:Project Mouse by Sahlin Studio & Britt-ish Designs
- flowers, washi tape, staple, baker’s twine, chevron stamp, butterfly : Adventurous by Penny Springmann
- colored African brads: African Vacation kit by Capturing Magical Memories
- owl stamp by Kimeric Kreations
- feathered template: Birds of a feather 4 by Fiddle Dee Dee Designs
- photo strip template:by Scrapping with Liz
It looks awesome! I wish I had your skills, I used to love scrapbooking when my son was little, then, life gets in the way and I haven’t done anything for more than 5 years!
ckrusch I started scrapbooking when I was single and now have 2+ kids so I understand the life gets in your way portion. It really is a labor of love now that I make myself find time for.
Brilliant, I use movie maker all the time to edit my videos, but didn’t think to extract the photos in that way! Gosh I miss scrapbooking, your layouts are fabulous..I remember taking photos with layouts specifically in mind. Now I photograph with blog posts in mind and have no time for scrapbooking. Sigh.
I really need to do something like this! Sounds fabulous! Thanks so much for sharing!
JenAndrade I can soooo relate to that statement Jen. Sharon keep me going with her great layouts. I feel if I can get a couple out then I am ahead of the game.
I love when a page turns out like that. It just starts to flow.
What a great template. It’s so full and layered.
We are doing Disneyland this year. love you you portray your photos and will look for Disney tips in these posts!
That is such a great idea! We also take a lot of videos at WDW and I have an app that does the same thing.
How fun! We love it when we get to participate in shows! I am excited to check out this program!
This is just lovely. I will have to try to remember to do this when I dump all my videos from my phone later in the year.
Now I know what to do with all of the video I have of my niece! I can’t believe I never thought to do this!
This is really neat. I never knew what to do with the videos….I just keep them on my phone.