How do you convert a video file into an image file?

If you just want to take a screenshot...

With some videos you can simply hit the Printscreen key on your keyboard, then click the Paste button in your graphic/image editor. With some other videos (such as DVD's), the above method doesn't work. For those videos you'll need to download a program called FRAPS. Download it here...

http://www.fraps.com/download.php

Just open the program, then load up the video and press the F10 key when you want to take a picture.

If you want to convert a video into an animated picture, you'll need to download a program called Animation Shop, load the video file, then click Save As and select .gif. Or just click the Animation Wizard. You can download the trial version here...

http://ftp.jasc.com/pub/ans305ev.exe

Good luck. :)

Conversion makes no sense. Do you just want one frame of the video? Do you want animated GIF? Be more specific!!!!!!