discussion / Camera Traps  / 6 July 2017

Recommendations Needed: Software for sampling photos from video

Hello Camera trappers :)

I am using video in our cameratraps sampling but need to extract picture from them to identify jaguar individuals. Any suggestion of good software to do this? Thank you very much

Nuno




We do this in Wildbook software, detecting keyframes of whale sharks in YouTube videos and entering them into the whaleshark.org platform for identification. Check out wildbook.org and feel free to contact the Wild Me team: [email protected]

Windows 10 hasa snipping tool - stop the video at the frame you want, snip it out (it will incude all the video timestamps, camera i.d. etc) and save. Here's one I recently did of a zebra just for fun.

My preference is to use Adobe Lightroom, allowing me to move forwards or backwards one frame at a time. I can also adjust the exposure. This is an example from one of my videos. 

I hope this is helpful.