

If you want to capture an image of one or two frames it’s quite easy and you simply pause the video and press the Print Screen key. A video file on a computer simply stores all the frames together and plays them in order, and the total frames stored for a typical movie reaches into the hundreds of thousands.

Most movies and TV programs are filmed at around 24-30 images per second, each individual image is called a frame which is where you see the term frames per second (FPS). The quicker the images are played, the smoother and more fluid the movement looks. These images are then played one after the other several times a second which fools your eye into thinking the object is moving.

Every video or animation you see on your television, computer, phone, tablet or even at the movie theater is made up from a succession of still images.
