Re: Pulling frames from large movies in QT (OSX)?

Posted by Wayne Rasband on Dec 10, 2009; 3:54pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Pulling-frames-from-large-movies-in-QT-OSX-tp3690140p3690142.html

 > Is there a plugin I can use within a macro to pull
 > individual frames (or a range of frames) from a Quicktime
 > movie (running OSX 10.4.11 here)? I need to recursively
 > search rather large (100-200meg) movies that are just TOO
 > big to pull into ImageJ. I see I can create a 'virtual
 > stack' when opening an image sequence, but nothing to do
 > the same with a movie... Thanks.

The latest version of the QT_Movie_Opener plugin (File>Import>Using
QuickTime command) at

    http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/plugins/movie-opener.html

supports virtual stacks, or you can convert QuickTime movies to image
sequences using a conversion program like "MPEG Streamclip".

-wayne