VideoSnaps provides for 'one touch' automatic extraction of distinct high quality photos, from a Video file - no manual picking of frames is required - NeuralTek's image matching technology automatically looks for unique pictures in the video stream, and creates a shortlist of photos which the user can pre-view, then selectively print or discard - ideal for getting those 'magic moments' from any home video recording - without manual picking through thousands of near duplicate frames.


First time released as shareware, the VideoSnaps technology was previously used in video production to extract frames for posters, cover art, etc. The same ease of use is now available for getting unique photos from any home video recording.


VideoSnaps Main Features:

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One touch scan of a recorded video file to automatically extract unique photo snaps

Default settings to suit most video recordings; optional controls to to tweak the behaviour manually

Automatic enlargement of smaller frame sizes to Full Frame size with auto noise reduction - makes the extracted photos suitable for printing

Built-in automatic, adaptive normalization filters reduce artefacts or noise introduced by enlargement

View 'found' photos in a slide show, then trim the list down, or manually capture additional frames to get the desired Photo List

Advanced printing with WYSIWYG preview

Print several photos per page, or fit for Full Page Blow-ups

Batch print all or selected photos

Great tool to discover and preserve the hidden treasure-trove of quality photos contained within video recordings from holidays, parties, special functions, etc.

Any home video recording is a store-house of potentially hundreds of high quality photographs - such that would require several film rolls and perfect snap shoots with a conventional still camera. Mining for these photos however has this far been a tedious process, requiring one to sit through patiently, while selecting one frame at a time out of streams of near duplicates - a typical one hour recording consists of approximately 100,000 still frames, mostly duplicates. VideoSnaps now makes this extraction process as simple as loading a video file, and then pressing a button.


The advanced image analysis technology embedded within VideoSnaps ensures that users get the most unique collection of high quality still photos, and with the minimal effort. The collection can then be previewed; unwanted items can be selectively purged, specific frames included manually, and the final list batch-printed, or stored for future use. For smaller "frame size" video typical of digital camcorders, web'ized video, or live video phone recordings, VideoSnaps allows for automatic scaling of scanned photos up to full frame size. Built-in automatic and adaptive Image Normalization reduces artefacts and blurriness that are typically associated with scaled-up images. This makes the processed photos suitable for hard copy printing.


VideoSnaps lets you discover and realize the hidden treasure-trove of great photographs, contained within video recordings from holidays, parties, special functions, etc.

VideoSnaps represents a great value. One would spend more on shooting and developing 2-3 rolls of film. With VideoSnaps in the toolset, you need not lug along the extra 'still' camera everywhere * - just shoot with your video camera, and you already have still photos waiting to be mined through VideoSnaps.

Getting your photos the "VideoSnaps" way has another inherent advantage - you do not need to time or choreograph the 'shoots' precisely. A video automatically shoots up to 25 - 30 frames per
second, so the chances of having that perfect photo are so much more, when compared to shooting with a still camera*.


Acquisition of video from video cameras or video play-back devices into your computer must be done through software and device interface/ drivers provided by the equipment manufacturer, or by using other third party software and interface cards, etc. VideoSnaps takes over once you have managed to 'capture' your video as ".AVI" or ".MPG/ .MPEG" video file on your computer.


* Despite the obvious advantage of shooting a video, a conventional or even a digital still camera shoots at a much higher resolution compared to a video recording


Minimum system requirements to install and run VideoSnaps:

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Windows 98(SE), ME, 2000, XP (or later) equipped PC * w/ Keyboard, and hard-disk with minimum 5 MB free space for the program, and pointing device

Color Monitor + Graphics card capable of minimum 800 X 600 display at 16 bit

Minimum 32MB memory, and support for playback of stored video files such as AVI and MPEG 1 streams.

Stored video files from which you wish to extract photos, or the means to capture video from your external source, along with the required codecs.

Printer [OPTIONAL] capable of color photo-quality output

Though VideoSnaps is technically supported on PC Windows, it may also work under Mac OS using a bridging software to emulate Windows. If you wish to use VideoSnaps on a Mac, try the free shareware version and see if it works under your emulation environment.


Supported Media Types Primarily, VideoSnaps supports Video for Windows files [.AVI] and MPEG encoded video. However, other movie files such as .mov may also be opened and processed, provided that you have the necessary codecs installed. Generally, VideoSnaps will load and process any video that you can playback using the standard Windows Media Player. However, the best way to ensure that the software works with your video is to download the free trial and try running your video files in trial mode; if this works, so will the full licensed version.