# Viewing video 1 frame at a time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 22, 2004, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viewing-video-1-frame-at-a-time/225604 "2004-01-22T09:09:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alietta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecb155/32.png) [@Alietta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alietta)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viewing-video-1-frame-at-a-time/225604/1 "2004-01-22T09:09:24Z")
I’m trying to make an animated gif from part of a video. What program can I use to freeze the video one frame at a time? Or what can I use to record just a small part of the video and save it to a file? ---
**Author:** ![Phage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a4c791/32.png) [@Phage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phage)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viewing-video-1-frame-at-a-time/225604/2 "2004-01-22T11:52:31Z")
You could use Zoom Player [http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/](http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/), the defaults for the commands you want to use are Shift “,” or “.” to move from frame to frame, and Alt “F” to take a screenshot. If you can use VMR9 (you need DirectX v9 at least; enable it in the Options/“Filter Control”/“Standard Media Playback” section under “Video Renderer”) then you should be able to take a screenshot no matter what format your video is in. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viewing-video-1-frame-at-a-time/225604/3 "2004-01-22T12:56:22Z")
Isn’t DirectX the reason I can’t seem to take screenshots of my videos anymore? Or is it OpenGL? I dunno, something’s preventing it from happening, anyway.