Do you want to extract images from your video records or from movies while preserving the original quality? Or maybe you have a desire to extract several favorite pictures from video files in order to use them later as ordinary digital photos?
How about enhancing images? Do you like to increase saturation? Restore too dark video? Repair too purple pictures?
Vidmex allows to perform all described tasks, and even more! Here's a solution:
Step 1
Launch Vidmex. Click the Open button, find and load your video file.
Press the Play button. Use slider bar
in order to set current position, or use hot keys on your keyboard: Alt+Right arrow and Alt+Left arrow. The Pause button (Win + X hot key) is very helpful for the purpose of suspending the video to select & estimate the best picture.
Step 2
Click the Pause button, and decide what to do now:
If everything is OK, and you agree to extract current image, then you can skip this point and go directly to the Step 3.
But, what if the image is very dark and you want to correct this problem? In order to accomplish this task, you can use Vidmex Effect Controls.
Click the Effect Controls button and try to adjust brightness/contrast settings in real time. Changes will be applied immediately.
Here's the result after increasing brightness and contrast:
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Adjust Color Balance parameters to get impressive results:
| Morning: | Increased red colors, and now it's evening! |
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You can try to change the image correction parameters: smooth and blur.
| Wrinkles? | After applying Blur and Smooth effect, she looks younger! |
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Make your video/images more beautiful by changing Saturation level:
| Pale colors: | After increasing the saturation, you will get bright attractive image with vivid colors! |
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Vidmex allows to flip the image horizontally or vertically, zoom in/out or change the position of zoomed area.
You can take the image from your favorite movie, flip it horizontally (mirror effect), so you can print it on a T-Shirt Heat Transfer Paper for Inkjet Printers. Extract the mirrored image to put it on a T-Shirt ! (T-shirt transfer paper can also be used with aprons, pillowcases, canvas bags, sweatshirts, caps, smocks, mouse pads, coasters, puzzles and other specialty items).
| Normal: | Flip Horizontally: | Flip Horizontally and Zoom In: |
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How about improving fuzzy blurred video? To increase sharpness, change "Sharpen" from the "Image correction" menu.
| Fuzzy video: | Excellent improvement in video quality after sharpening: |
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Do you want to correct too purple colors? Defective video? No problem! Try to increase green and red channels from the "Color Balance" menu.
| Too purple video: | Red and Green colors have been increased, and video is restored! |
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Using the Intensity effect you can transform the shadow into the light.
| In the shadow of trees: | The Intensity level has been increased, and the shadow is replaced by bright colors. |
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If you have some video with symbols, buildings, statues, expressive shapes, then you can create a three-dimensional effect that allows video to look like it was raised from the background. Choose the "Emboss" from the "Misc. Effects" menu.
| Normal image: | Emboss effect: |
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Step 3
Click the End button. Vidmex Wizard will pop up. Here you can precisely adjust the time (in seconds, or even in milliseconds).
Click the Image button in Vidmex Wizard.
Choose filename of extracted image and path where image must be saved.
Select output format:
uncompressed BMP (large file size)
JPEG (small file size)
If you decided to use JPEG compression, then you can adjust quality parameter. In most cases the goal is to pick the lowest quality setting, or the smallest file size, that decompresses into an image indistinguishable from
the original. This setting will vary from one image to another and from one observer to another, but here are some rules of thumb.
For good-quality, full-color source images, 75% quality is very often the best choice. This setting is about the lowest you can go without expecting to see defects in a typical image.
On the other hand, you might need to go to a higher quality setting to avoid further loss. This is often necessary if the image contains dithering or moire patterns. Except for experimental purposes, never go above about 95%. Quality 100% will produce a file two or three times as large as 95%, but of hardly any better quality.
If you want a very small file (say for preview or indexing purposes) and are prepared to tolerate large defects, a Quality setting in the range of 5 to 10 is about right.
For good-quality, full-color source images, 75% quality is very often the best choice. This setting is about the lowest you can go without expecting to see defects in a typical image.
On the other hand, you might need to go to a higher quality setting to avoid further loss. This is often necessary if the image contains dithering or moire patterns. Except for experimental purposes, never go above about 95%. Quality 100% will produce a file two or three times as large as 95%, but of hardly any better quality.
If you want a very small file (say for preview or indexing purposes) and are prepared to tolerate large defects, a Quality setting in the range of 5 to 10 is about right.
Finally, click the Extract button, and image will be saved.