How to Pull Frames from a Video or Combine Images Into an Animated Video in Shotcut

[@BenEspanto]

Here are 2 amazing tips that you will use over and over again. Can you think of other use cases for these tricks? Let me know!

[@ghoct_1473]

THANK YOU SO MUCH ! I'VE BEEN STURGGLING IN STOPMOTION FOR SO LONG AND NOW I CAN DO IT. THANK YOUUUUU.

[@BenEspanto]

Glad I could help. I'd love for you to susbcribe

[@Just_a_normal_guy11]

Your videos are my addiction. Can't get enough. In all your videos, in beginning you are mentioning your self as a normal guy without any video editing experience. Please change it. You are a PRO for me. You are inspiration for thousands of people like me.Thanks for all your videos.

[@BenEspanto]

I appreciate that! Thank you for being a supporter!

[@bordeauxpierre]

Bonjour, Merci pour ce tutoriel qui comme tous les autres est à la hauteur du talent de son auteur. J'ia hâte pour le prochain, cordialement

[@BenEspanto]

J'apprécie votre aide. Merci!

[@TimLauridsen]

Gratz with the 2K & thanks for yet another high quality tutorial

[@BenEspanto]

Thank you!

[@Onemanstrash1]

Thank you Ben , I just used this software to create a video from photos. It was the last demolition I was in , and messed up my go pro settings to snapshot... Finally after just about 10 years I see the video..kinda lol

[@BenEspanto]

Glad it was helpful! I'd love for you to subscribe

[@Onemanstrash1]

@@BenEspanto already done . Question, is there a way to speed up the video created with all these still images that I turned into a video ? been snooping around on this new to me software , and I can not figure it out.

[@heatherryan9820]

Thank you so much for teaching me how to do this, and for telling me about Shotcut. I've been using Openshot and it works, but I think I like this better. You wanted to know other uses for this? I wanted footage from a river where I live during sunrise. So I went onto a bridge, and lowered down my GoPro with an extremely long piece of rope. The only problem is that with the wind, and the natural twist in the row, it made my GoPro spin extention fast. So I used the method you taught here, and extracted only the frames that were pointing the direction that I wanted, and put them back together.

[@BenEspanto]

Great idea and solution

[@heatherryan9820]

although I wasn’t expecting a 7 minute video to turn into over 18,000 images that took up over 23gb of storage.

[@mySeaPrince_]

😻

[@OldManFatBike]

Good deal, I'm waiting for the next one to learn that swipe transition. That was really cool Ben!!

[@BenEspanto]

Coming soon!

[@Trixxta6]

You're amazing. You need more subscribers!

[@BenEspanto]

Thanks! Yes! I hope so

[@Trixxta6]

@@BenEspanto hey Ben could you please make a quick tutorial on how you did the transition into the laptop screen at 0:36? I terribly need it for an official project! Thank you!

[@BenEspanto]

I won't be able to create one right away but it's basically the same concept as this tutorial: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaS5pJl8qsysb6c

[@Trixxta6]

@@BenEspanto okay thank you so very much ❤️

[@theunknownonetuo2033]

Congratz for 2k!!!

[@BenEspanto]

Thank you!

[@minhazulislam8780]

Very nice work Ben, keep going on. ❤️❤️❤️

[@BenEspanto]

Thank you. I'd love for you to subscribe

[@AxmPlays]

Tysm I was trying to find out how to make a picture last a frame and I would need to do it for tons of pictures but this just saved potentially hours of my life

[@BenEspanto]

Glad I could help. I'd love for you to subscribe

[@AxmPlays]

@@BenEspanto Of course!

[@vihangaraveen8891]

Thank you man, really helpfull content. Subscribed!

[@BenEspanto]

Awesome, thank you!

[@wkgmathguy218]

Very nice! Keep up the good work.

[@BenEspanto]

Glad I could help. I'd love for you to subscribe

[@josebello7822]

First of all, many thanks for taking the time to make those very instructional videos, I've learnt a lot with them. Congratulations for a great job. As an example of when to use single frames I had digitised some family 8mm videos from the 70's and in one of them there were some very dark scenes of a wedding inside a church, some people were taking flash photos that were recorded so I saved the image of the lit frame and repeated it for half a second so we could see them instead of a one frame flash.

[@BenEspanto]

You're welcome and what a great idea!

[@AndyMorfett]

Yet another great video Ben. Congrats on the 2k as well. Looking forward to the wipe tutorial. Andy.

[@BenEspanto]

Thank you! I appreciate the love!

[@jue1811]

this option is really way better than ctrl+Shift+E ... i have been doing my lyve sso wrong T_T ... thanks man

[@BenEspanto]

Glad I could help. I'd love for you to subscribe

[@HammyAndSammy]

This, this is great

[@BenEspanto]

Thank you. I'd love for you to subscribe

[@HammyAndSammy]

@@BenEspanto i am subscribed :D

[@DanielMartinez-bv8fr]

Hi Ben. Thanks for sharing your hacks. would it be possible to have a tutorial to use Shotcut to create a timelapse based on this options? Thanks!

[@BenEspanto]

It would be exactly like the steps on combining photos, except you would need to provide the time lapse photos

[@klausschaefer8279]

Hi Ben, thanks a lot for this great video which solved a Problem I had with Route Generator (1.10 /64). I used it for generating routes from my Trip thru the Southwest. Everything was done in Full HD (1920/1080) but after the tool generated the video from the single picture files, the quality was bad. Loading the Pics into Shotcut solved that perfectly. After the Export I got now a great quality and the video is even over 20% smaller than the one from the tool! Thanks again, Klaus

[@BenEspanto]

Glad it helped! I'd love for you to subscribe

[@photorreia]

I love your work thank you so much, greetings from Brasil.

[@BenEspanto]

Thank you!

[@svenleeuwen]

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

[@BenEspanto]

Glad I could help!

[@jaywalkertrio8789]

Bravo!

[@BenEspanto]

Thanks! I would love for you to subscribe!

[@jaywalkertrio8789]

Its done Ben

[@BenEspanto]

Thank you! I appreciate it!

[@Haruk309]

Thanks man your the Man

[@BenEspanto]

Glad to help. I'd love for you to subscribe!

[@shsechas]

I'm still a beginner, but learned so much. I could probably play around with a short clip and see what I can do using PSP and an animation program.

[@BenEspanto]

Great!

[@awesomearizona-dino]

Good tutorial, i was using VLC, it would create 1000s of stills, THIS is much better for MAKING STILLS.

[@BenEspanto]

Great to hear!

[@zcbery]

wow thanks man means alot

[@BenEspanto]

No problem!

[@sakibahmedhabib]

I learned a lot from your videos. I want to see the transition you showed in this video while making stills...

[@BenEspanto]

Do you have a timestamp?

[@sakibahmedhabib]

No um afraid I don't have any...

[@BenEspanto]

Time stamp on my video of what part you are referring to

[@mb-rosthofficial9965]

thx Sir.Great video,very helpfull

[@BenEspanto]

Glad it helped

[@santiagohola88]

Thanks!

[@BenEspanto]

No problem!

[@Hanson97]

Can you teach how to upscale a video from 480p to 1080p?

[@BenEspanto]

All you have to do is set both Video Mode (Settings > Video Mode) and the export settings to 1920 x 1080

[@Hanson97]

@@BenEspanto Thank you!

[@BenEspanto]

You're welcome!

[@Blenderfanz]

have you got a video on removing duplicate frames I have a time laps video of a plant it does not look right if I speed it up. But looking at most of the frames they are the same if I deleted all of the frames that are the same I think I would get a resonable time laps.

[@BenEspanto]

Try reducing the FPS in the export

[@restholzjunkie]

Funny! It works!!! Of Course I'd like to see the Swipe transition too. My personal intrerest for the moment is regardeing animated Text. I want to let a longer Text as a Legal Disclaimer running upwards through an Image and since HTML-Animation is not supported any longer, how to create some cool animated Text Captions; Intros and Outros..

[@BenEspanto]

Please subscribe to see my other tutorials. To create a text crawl, I would use the Text Rich filter, similar to the effect in this tutorial: kzbin.info/aero/PLpO3ttBDkV5uFHUIfsYL9IIk30TeQqCsj

[@SW-Video]

Another good video Ben! How do you re-insert the manipulated section of video back into the original video?

[@BenEspanto]

You would just need to save the cutout and non-cutout version of the video prior to you extracting the segment

[@phila2361]

Another great vid, thx Ben. Will fit it into one of my vids soon. Could use tutorial on scrolling txt. Since they stopped using HTML, I've had issues with both horizontal and vertical.

[@BenEspanto]

On the Text: Simple filter there are built -in presets. Try those. I think there's one that scrolls from left to right

[@planetdeepak]

Thank you

[@BenEspanto]

You're welcome

[@PickinPins]

You’re simply amazing bro! How in gods name do you learn this stuff ha ha! You’re probably the only person in the world who knows this trick ha ha ! 👍

[@BenEspanto]

I appreciate that! I just play around with it and confer with other Shotcut users to solve the problems of the world

[@PickinPins]

@@BenEspanto It’s probably on here somewhere but is there a shotcut forum ?

[@BenEspanto]

Yes. Just to go Shotcut.com

[@PickinPins]

@@BenEspanto thanks brother ! 👍

[@JohnnieBravo1]

Hey Ben; new subscriber, and am learning lots from your tutorials, thank you so much. Question: Is there a way to automate frame transitions?? Case in point, I am recording time lapse jpg's of seasonal changes in my back yard wilderness. I did it last year, and the frame rate was good, but choppy and disorienting. The cams are set up taking a pic every 15 minutes during daylight hours, and will run for about 6 or 7 months. Watching last years, I learned a LOT about lighting differences between frames and all, but I also wanted to try a smooth transition between all frames, and as you can imagine, there are a ton of them, so doing them individually would not be the best use of time. In fact, I may not live long enough to do one video that way! Is there a way to select a group of pics (like a thousand or so at a time), and automate transitions between them for playback?

[@BenEspanto]

In this same tutorial starting at about here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3W9m6SpaMpllbc it shows you how to load back individual images to make an animation. When you get to the "properties" section, there is a "duration" box that that you can shorten so that images play a little quicker. This should help you smoothen it a bit. I also have another tutorial utilizing the slideshow functionality that might work if the first technique doesn't: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3m0goyamr6latk

[@stopmotiontime8167]

Great video Ben. I use ShotCut for my stop motion videos & I absolutely love it. I would love some input though if you can help me? I work in 15fps for my stop motion but I want to include videos that I have filmed to showcase my builds which are usually shot in 30fps. So my timeline is set to 15fps, how does one go about including a 30fps clip into the timeline and having it play back smoothly? Can you point me in the right direction?

[@BenEspanto]

It's tough with different frame rates. You might need an external interpolation software to smoothen your 15 fps vids

[@mySeaPrince_]

There's an easy way.. without a fancy programme.. to remove every other picture.

[@MirchiBoy]

👍👍👍

[@BenEspanto]

Thank you!

[@dheerajmaurya1758]

How many transitions in shotcut and can we make our own transistion as you make frame is moving with legs and other pictures comes up

[@BenEspanto]

As many transitions your computer can handle

[@thesittingtraveller3467]

Is this a best way to make an animation that's animated with 1s into 2s?

[@BenEspanto]

This is one of the ways when you have images

[@musicalboxbitspieces]

First, congrats on reaching 2000 subs ! With that of course comes the inexplicable and inevitable multiplication of thumbs down. But don't worry about those :) Loved the video ! Well done. I took note of something you said: "I try to respond to every single comment" Let's wait and see if you'll do the same when you reach 1 million subs :p

[@BenEspanto]

You were the inspiration for this video so thanks to you! To KZbin, a thumbs down is equivalent to a thumbs up, so I'm not worried about it. And yes, I try to respond to every comment, but by the time 1 million hits, I can probably afford a robot to do it. LOL!

[@DroneALRM]

Simple and very useful! Congratulations from Brasil 🇧🇷

[@BenEspanto]

Thank you very much!

[@TheFishingExperience916]

holy sh** thanks you lol im so stupid

[@disaster_chief]

I checked the image sequence box, but it still only shows one image in the preview. It doesn't import the rest of the stills. What did I do wrong?

[@BenEspanto]

Are the names of the files consecutive numbers?

[@disaster_chief]

I appended consecutive numbers to the end of the file names. I didn't think the rest of the filename would matter.

[@BenEspanto]

That's how it knows the order

[@fd2869]

thank you for videos! One ask: can you please make your videos shorter ? There is really no need to make 10min video with so little information

[@BenEspanto]

I have tons of other videos under 10 mins. You can watch those

[@fd2869]

​@@BenEspanto i know. i meant something else: you could make video a little bit shorter to save viewers time. good luck and thank you for your efforts

[@BenEspanto]

I don't try to hit a time limit when I make videos. I try to help people, especially beginners, and it's going to take as long as it's going to take.

[@rahulfree1]

You can watch the videos on 1.25x or 1.5x, that is what I do to save time. For beginners who are opening the tool for first time and learning where to click... longer videos make sense. There are tons of other short videos on KZbin under 2-3 mins, but they don't match the way Ben explains. Great job Ben !!