Step 1: Transfer your MPG 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.
MPG to TIFF Conversion FAQ
How do I extract frames from an MPG video as TIFF images?
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Upload the MPG and the converter exposes a frame-extraction picker: every Nth frame, frames at specific timestamps, or one frame per second. Each chosen frame is encoded as an individual TIFF file and the full set is bundled into a ZIP archive for download. MPG is the same MPEG program stream as .mpeg — the three-letter extension is a DOS-era truncation, not a different format. TIFF is the Tagged Image File Format from 1986, and it is the format scanning, publishing and archiving industries standardised on.
Why do my extracted frames have horizontal lines through them?
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Because the source is interlaced. MPG content from the broadcast and DVD era stores two half-height fields per frame, captured a fiftieth of a second apart, and a still pulled straight out shows both woven together as combing on anything that moved. Enable deinterlacing before extraction and each still is built from a single reconstructed progressive frame.
Can I get the TIFF frames without the subtitles?
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Only if the MPG never had them burned in, because MPG has no selectable subtitle stream to switch off. Anything an MPG 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. MPG inherits every MPEG-2 limitation — heavy bitrate, interlacing, no soft subtitles — plus the confusion of two extensions for one format.
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 MPG video — a 1080p MPG produces 1920×1080 TIFF frames; a 4K MPG 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 MPG as TIFF?
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Yes, but be careful with file count — a 30fps 1-minute MPG produces 1,800 TIFF frames. We pack them into a ZIP automatically. For longer clips, the "1 per second" option (60 frames) or specific timestamps gives a manageable result.
Will the extracted TIFF images preserve the MPG color grading?
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Yes — colour is decoded with the matrix the source MPG uses (BT.709 for HD, BT.2020 for 4K HDR). HDR sources are tone-mapped to SDR on extraction to TIFF because most TIFF formats (PNG, JPG) cannot store HDR pixel ranges natively.
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 MPG produces ~50 GB total.
Does the extracted TIFF retain EXIF camera metadata?
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The MPG container does not store per-frame EXIF the way a still camera does, so the TIFF files come out with empty EXIF. We embed a `creation_time` field pointing at the source frame timestamp so you can re-sort the bundle by capture order.
How long does frame extraction from MPG to TIFF take?
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Frame extraction is fast — typically 20 to 30% of source duration on the standard pipeline. A 5-minute MPG → TIFF bundle finishes in about a minute regardless of frame count, because the bottleneck is the TIFF encoder, not the MPG demuxer.
Can I extract frames at specific timestamps in the MPG?
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Yes — the advanced option accepts a comma-separated list of timestamps (e.g. `00:01:23,00:05:00,00:10:42`) and produces one TIFF file per timestamp. Useful for chapter thumbnails, scene reference shots, or thumbnailing long lectures.
