yys,
again, the reason it wont work is that I dont want 79,200,000 frame grabs stored on my computer... If I did this with all 11000+ movies we have I'd need a netapp filer to store all the jpegs

(120 second clips 30 frames per second) we need something like I said that will only grab every XXXth frame and save it automaticaly, then jump forward by another XXX frames and repeat.
CD