Using FFMPEG to extract or convert videos to Images

The simple command to use to convert a given video video.ext to a set of images preferably with the naming format XXXX.png is :

ffmpeg -i video.ext %4d.png

It will produce images with the naming : 0001.png 0002.png and so on. You can try different image format if needed ( Jpeg, bmp…)

In case you want to extract and convert only a specific portion of the video :

ffmpeg -ss hh:mm:ss -t hh:mm:ss -i video.ext %4d.png
-ss option is the starting point whilst -t option is the duration to be converted.

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