With our ultra high quality studio lighting and our razor sharp 4K video footage, our recipe videos are fantastic for taking screen grab images from!
Every frame of our videos is a photo!
These images are great for updating a recipe blog post with step by step photos, or for creating new images for social media.
Steps for taking screen grabs using VLC Media Player on a Mac:
- Go to https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ and download and install the VLC media player. VLC media player is 100% free open-source software which has been downloaded over 3 billion times and it’s very safe and reputable.
- Open a recipe video in the VLC media player, then pause the video during the frame of your choice. You can tap or hold E to move through the video frame by frame. You can tap the space bar to pause or unpause the video.
- Click ‘Video’ on the VLC menu at the top of the screen, then go about halfway down the sub-menu and click ‘Snapshot’.
- Alternately, you can press the following keys all at once to take a screen grab: Command+Alt+S
- VLC will automatically generate a high resolution .png image and save it to your Pictures folder on your Mac. (/Users/YOURNAME/Pictures). The photo will be called vlcsnap, followed by the date.
Steps for taking screen grabs using VLC Media Player on a PC:
- Go to https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ and download and install the VLC media player. VLC media player is 100% free open-source software which has been downloaded over 3 billion times and it’s very safe and reputable.
- Open a recipe video in the VLC media player, then pause the video during the frame of your choice. You can tap or hold E to move through the video frame by frame. You can tap the space bar to pause or unpause the video.
- Click ‘Video’ on the VLC menu at the top of the screen, then go about halfway down the sub-menu and click ‘Snapshot’.
- Alternately, you can press the following keys all at once to take a screen grab: Command+Alt+S
- VLC will automatically generate a high resolution .png image and save it to your Pictures folder on your PC. (/Users/YOURNAME/Pictures). The photo will be called vlcsnap, followed by the date.
