I got my new iPod Nano this week. I’d been considering a Flip Mino to carry in my jersey pocket on some of this Fall’s fundraising centuries, and at the last minute decided to wait to see what the new Nano would bring. My old iPod is a first generation Nano, which is pretty long in the tooth, so I was looking for an excuse to upgrade anyway.
My first impression is that this is a shockingly light toy. When I put it in my shirt pocket, it seems smaller and lighter than several business cards would be. The FM radio is a nice addition, and the display is so much better than my first-gen Nano.
I took a couple of sample videos, and the quality is about as advertised. Good framerate, and although it’s only VGA, the video seems bright and clear when taken in good light. As much as reviewers have complained about the lens position, it hasn’t really bothered me. Could be that it hasn’t gotten in the way since I’m left handed.
Once I figured out I had to have the iPod set to Hard Drive mode to extract videos, getting the videos out of the iPod and into iPhoto was all but automatic. Attach the iPod, open iPhoto, and click on “Import.”
However, I’m at a dead end when it comes to still photos. When I ordered this in the post-keynote daze, I knew that it wouldn’t take still photos. However, I figured I could in a pinch grab still frames from the resultant Quicktime videos if I wanted. I know I used to be able to do this with Quicktime Pro in the past, but as far as I can tell Quicktime Pro doesn’t exist any more. I can trim a video in Snow Leopard’s Quicktime 10, but the result is still a Quicktime video.
Does anyone know of a good utility to grab a single frame from a Quicktime video and save it as a .jpg?