Step 1: Transfer your FLV files using the button above or by slide and deposit.
Step 2: Click the 'Convert' button to start the conversion.
Step 3: Retrieve your converted BMP files.
FLV to BMP Conversion FAQ
How do I extract frames from an FLV video as BMP images?
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Upload the FLV and open the options. Frame Extraction has two modes: Single Frame saves one BMP from the second you enter (for example 1, 5 or 10.5), and All Frames saves every frame of the video as a BMP image. There is no every-Nth-frame or one-per-second mode. FLV is the Flash Video container that carried essentially all web video from roughly 2003 until Flash was switched off at the end of 2020. BMP is the Windows Bitmap, the raw raster format built into Windows since 1985.
Can I get the BMP frames without the subtitles?
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Only if the FLV never had them burned in, because FLV has no selectable subtitle stream to switch off. Anything an FLV shows on screen is in the picture itself, so it is in every BMP the extraction produces and no setting removes it afterwards. Where a separate subtitle file exists alongside the video, extract from a source that kept the two apart and the frames come out clean. No current browser, phone or TV can play FLV — anything still in this container has to be moved out of it to remain watchable.
How big will the BMP files be?
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Larger than you might expect, because BMP keeps every pixel exactly rather than approximating. A 1080p still lands around 2-5 MB and a 4K still around 6-15 MB, so a long extraction run adds up quickly. That is the right trade when the images feed further processing, and the wrong one when they are going straight onto a web page. BMP usually stores completely uncompressed pixel rows with a small header, which is why it is so simple to parse.
At what resolution does each extracted BMP frame come out?
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The same resolution as the FLV video — a 1080p FLV produces 1920×1080 BMP frames; a 4K FLV produces 3840×2160 BMP frames. Use the resize utility after extraction if you want smaller thumbnails or social-media-sized crops.
Can I extract every single frame from FLV as BMP?
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Yes, with All Frames in the Frame Extraction option, but watch the count: one minute of 30 fps video gives 1,800 BMP images. For a single still, choose Single Frame and enter the second you want instead.
Will the extracted BMP images preserve the FLV color grading?
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HDR footage is not tone-mapped: each frame is converted from the FLV as it is decoded, so a frame from an HDR FLV can look flat or washed out as a BMP. Standard (SDR) video keeps its colours.
What is the file size of one extracted BMP frame?
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Depends on resolution and BMP codec. A 1080p PNG frame is typically 2 to 5 MB; a 1080p JPG at quality-85 is 200 to 500 KB; a 4K PNG is 6 to 15 MB. At the extreme, every-frame PNG extraction of a 10-minute 1080p FLV produces ~50 GB total.
How long does frame extraction from FLV to BMP take?
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It depends on the size and length of the file. Small documents and images are usually ready quickly. Long videos take the longest, because most video conversions re-encode every frame.
Can I extract frames at specific timestamps in the FLV?
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One at a time. Single Frame takes one time in seconds (for example 83 for 1:23) and saves that frame as a BMP. There is no field for a list of times, so run the conversion again for each extra timestamp.
Is my FLV video private during frame extraction?
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Yes. Uploaded FLV files are processed on our own conversion servers, no person reviews them, and they are never shared. The upload and the converted BMP are both deleted automatically about 24 hours after the conversion, which leaves time to download the result. See /privacy/ for the full policy.
Why are my extracted BMP frames blurry?
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Almost always motion blur baked into the FLV source — the camera or subject was moving when the frame was captured. Pick timestamps from static scenes, or extract adjacent frames and choose the sharpest. The pipeline does not synthesize detail that was not there.
FLV (Flash Video) is a video container format developed by Adobe. It is commonly used for online video streaming and is supported by Adobe Flash Player.
