Extract Frames
Choose the remembered current position or final frame and use the new Reference image.
Connect a video with a playable result
Extract Frames accepts a completed Video, Video Edit, or Motion node on its Video input. Its own output is an image; it is not a video generator or an interpolation tool.
- Right-click blank canvas, choose Video → Extract Frames, and left-click to place it beside an existing video.
- Drag the video’s output to Extract Frames’ Video input and wait until the source preview is playable.
Take the current playback frame
The extractor remembers a playback or seek position. Current Frame extracts that timestamp; the time shown beneath the preview helps verify what was selected.
- Play or scrub the extractor’s embedded video to a clear subject pose, for example the bicycle passing a streetlamp.
- Check the displayed current time and click Current Frame; if using the larger preview, close it after choosing the position.
Take the last valid frame
Final Frame uses the end of the connected video rather than the remembered playhead. This is useful when the next shot should start from the previous shot’s ending composition.
- Preview the video ending first to check that the subject is not blurred, occluded, or already off-screen.
- Click Final Frame and wait for extraction; compare its still with the ending of the video before continuing.
Use the newly created Reference
Successful extraction records the frame on the extractor and creates an additional Reference image node to its right, connected from the extractor’s Image output.
- Find the new Reference node and open its preview to confirm the intended timestamp or final composition.
- Choose a Video model with an image input, connect this Reference, select it in @ references if needed, and prompt only the next action.
Resolve disabled controls or a wrong frame
The extraction buttons are disabled without a resolvable source video or during extraction. Changing the connected source resets its remembered time and previous frame result.
- If controls stay disabled, ensure the video has a playable URL and its edge reaches the Video input, not an image or audio handle.
- If Current Frame is unexpected, scrub and read the current time again; for a stable ending choose Final Frame, then inspect the new Reference.
Frame extraction produces a still reference for another generation step; it does not insert intermediate frames into the source clip.