Images from a movie

I've got an MPG movie, that I need to edit, image by image. To do this, I
need to pull the images out of the movie, and into my image editor.

I'm on a Macintosh.

For some reason, I can't access the images. If I open the movie and play
it, and stop the play showing one still image, and take a screenshot, the
screenshot only shows the image IF the movie itself is still open, otherwise
it's just a black square.

No matter how I try to get the images out, I get nothing but black squares
where the movie window is.

It is quite bizarre.

Is there a fix for this? A program I could download?

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In article <gypsyware-6770F4.17273529102003 RemoveThis @news06.east.earthlink.net>,
Shari C <gypsyware RemoveThis @earthlink.net> wrote:

 > I've got an MPG movie, that I need to edit, image by image. To do this, I
 > need to pull the images out of the movie, and into my image editor.
 >
 > I'm on a Macintosh.
 >
 > For some reason, I can't access the images. If I open the movie and play
 > it, and stop the play showing one still image, and take a screenshot, the
 > screenshot only shows the image IF the movie itself is still open, otherwise
 > it's just a black square.
 >
 > No matter how I try to get the images out, I get nothing but black squares
 > where the movie window is.
 >
 > It is quite bizarre.
 >
 > Is there a fix for this? A program I could download?

It seems MPEG is a distribution format, not an editing format.
You can export to another format (such as Quicktime), then access the
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