Media

Video to Image Sequence

Extract video frames as an image sequence with customizable frame rate, quality, and output format

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Quick start

Call this tool from your code in three languages.

cURL

# 1) Upload each file first → returns { filePath }
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/upload/video-to-image-sequence' \
  -F 'file=@/path/to/videoFile.ext'

# 2) Call the tool with the returned filePath values
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/video-to-image-sequence' \
  -F 'videoFile=/path/to/file.ext' \
  -F 'outputFormat=png' \
  -F 'fps=10' \
  -F 'startTime=0' \
  -F 'duration=0' \
  -F 'quality=100' \
  -F 'width=0' \
  -F 'height=0' \
  -F 'maintainAspectRatio=true'

API reference

Send a POST request with your inputs as JSON. File parameters require a separate upload first.

Endpoint

HTTP

POST https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/video-to-image-sequence

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
videoFile	fileupload required	Yes	—
outputFormat	select	No	—
fps	number	No	Number of frames to extract per second
startTime	number	No	—
duration	number	No

MCP integration

Add this tool to your Model Context Protocol server so AI agents can list and call it.

Server configuration

Add this block to your MCP client configuration:

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elysiatools-video-to-image-sequence": {
      "name": "video-to-image-sequence",
      "description": "Extract video frames as an image sequence with customizable frame rate, quality, and output format",
      "baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=video-to-image-sequence",
      "command": "",
      "args": [],
      "env": {},
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "sse"
    }
  }
}

List available tools

After connecting to the SSE endpoint, list the exposed tools:

tools/list

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/list"
}

Call this tool

Invoke the tool by its id, passing arguments built from its parameters:

tools/call

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "video-to-image-sequence",
    "arguments": {
  "videoFile": "https://example.com/file.ext",
  "outputFormat": "png",
  "fps": 10,
  "startTime": 0,
  "duration": 0,
  "quality": 100,
  "width": 0,
  "height": 0,
  "maintainAspectRatio": true
}
  }
}

Chain multiple tools in one session with a comma-separated toolId list, e.g. /mcp/sse?toolId=png-to-webp,jpg-to-webp,gif-to-webp (max 20).