Still photo from video

[wthibeaux]

I have a video of hummingbirds swarming around a feeder. The video runs about 30 seconds. I would like a still photo from somewhere in the video run and was told by the photo department in a big box store that it couldn't be done. Can anyone help? I'm thinking that there must be some way to do this.
Thanks

 

[cadee2c]

What kind of video is it? Is it on your phone? a VCR tape? CD?

 

[8Muddypaws]

It can be done, but usually the quality of the image is not very good.  Especially with something that moves faster than the camera's shutter, like a humming birds wings.

As above, what is it's current format?

 

[SeilerBird]

It can be done very easily. Play the video on your computer and press pause where you want to take a photo. Open up the Windows Snipping Tool and take a photo. Then save it to your hard drive. If you were shooting in HD the image should look pretty good.

 

[wthibeaux]

The video is on an SD card in my digital camera.

 

[SeilerBird]

Stick the SD card into your computer.