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Damaco Author

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Mac OS big sur frame to frame scanning buttons in videos is gone

Additional to the gear gone in the new macOS big sur version, I noticed we can edit and take a poster frame within the edit portion of the video, but I cannot move the video frame by frame before taking a poster frame, I used to do it with clicking on showing scanning buttons but the scanning buttons are gone also, do you know if there is a way to move the video frame by frame ?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.1

Posted on Jan 7, 2021 7:06 PM

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léonie

Level 10

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Posted on Jan 8, 2021 12:04 AM

It seems no longer to be possible directly in Photos 6 on Big Sur.

Try the following as a work-around:

Select the video in Photos.
Use the command "Image > Open with" and select the QuickTime Player.
The video will open in QuickTime Player and you can use the left and right arrow keys to step the video one frame at a time.

If you want to save the selected frame you select in QuickTime Player as an image do the following:

After finding the frame copy it to the Clipboard with ⌘C
Now launch Preview and go to the file menu in Preview.
Use the command "File > New image from Clipboard.
Use "File > Export" to save the new image in any file format you want.

This will give you a better resolution than taking a screenshot of the selected frame.

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