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 TIFF files.
FLV to TIFF Conversion FAQ
How do I extract frames from an FLV video as TIFF images?
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Upload the FLV and open the options. Frame Extraction has two modes: Single Frame saves one TIFF from the second you enter (for example 1, 5 or 10.5), and All Frames saves every frame of the video as a TIFF 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. TIFF is the Tagged Image File Format from 1986, and it is the format scanning, publishing and archiving industries standardised on.
Can I get the TIFF 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 TIFF 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.
Does the TIFF output support transparency?
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The format does, but the source has no alpha to give it — video frames and rendered pages are fully opaque by nature, so every pixel arrives solid. The alpha channel is still useful afterwards: it means you can cut a subject out of the TIFF later without changing format again. TIFF handles CMYK, 16-bit depth, embedded ICC profiles and multi-page documents, which is exactly what print and archival workflows require.
How big will the TIFF files be?
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Larger than you might expect, because TIFF 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. TIFF is a container more than a codec: it can hold uncompressed, LZW, ZIP or even JPEG data, at up to 32 bits per channel, with multiple pages in one file.
At what resolution does each extracted TIFF frame come out?
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The same resolution as the FLV video — a 1080p FLV produces 1920×1080 TIFF frames; a 4K FLV produces 3840×2160 TIFF 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 TIFF?
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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 TIFF images. For a single still, choose Single Frame and enter the second you want instead.
Will the extracted TIFF 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 TIFF. Standard (SDR) video keeps its colours.
What is the file size of one extracted TIFF frame?
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Depends on resolution and TIFF 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 TIFF 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 TIFF. 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 TIFF are both deleted automatically about 24 hours after the conversion, which leaves time to download the result. See /privacy/ for the full policy.
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.
