Video Frame Extractor
by Edric Vale
Pull stills and short clips from videos with ffmpeg behind a thin wrapper: sample frames at intervals, grab an exact frame at a timestamp, build contact sheets,
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You say
Create a 4-column contact sheet for movie.mp4 taking a frame every 10 seconds and save it as grid.jpg.
Your agent does
Running: vidframes sheet movie.mp4 --cols 4 --every 10s --out grid.jpg Source: 1080p, 00:02:30 duration. Result: grid.jpg generated with 15 frames (4x4 grid).
What you get
About this skill
The problem
Manually extracting frames or creating preview grids with raw ffmpeg commands is error-prone and requires memorizing complex filter syntax. Developers often waste time troubleshooting timestamp offsets or incorrect GIF palette generation.
What it does
- Extracts high-quality stills at precise timestamps for thumbnails.
- Generates automated contact sheets and preview grids at set intervals.
- Converts video segments into optimized GIFs using two-pass palette generation.
- Performs batch processing across multiple directories to standardize preview assets.
- Cuts short video clips while maintaining source codec settings.
Frameworks & tools
This skill requires ffmpeg and the vidframes Python CLI wrapper.
Why this beats prompting it yourself
Instead of wrestling with -vf fps=1/N or -ss positioning issues, you use a declarative CLI syntax. It handles the underlying filter graphs for complex tasks like tiled contact sheets and high-quality GIF dithering that standard LLM prompts often hallucinate.
Use cases
- Generating 4x4 preview grids for video library management.
- Automating thumbnail extraction for CMS uploads.
- Creating lightweight GIFs for PR descriptions or documentation.
- Batch processing raw footage into 5-second interval samples for review.
Known limitations
Not suitable for DRM-protected content or complex timeline editing with audio transitions. GIF files may become excessively large for segments longer than 8 seconds.
How to install
Drop the file into your AI Agent. Works with Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, and 20+ more.
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