Still photos from video

Hi all, I made a vacation movie a while ago and after burning copies for all of my friends, I deleted all of the files from my HDD. Now one of my friends wants a still of one of the scenes. I've used my copy to put it back onto my HDD as if I was going to burn additional copies and have a .CDR file on my desktop. I thought I could open iMovie 6, find the file and open it. I planned to then make the still copy, but I can't get the .CDR file to open in iMovie 6.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can do this? Or am I out of luck?
cheers,
Jack

One work around is to play the DVD and pause it at the picture you want to share,
Make sure your Display is at its highest resolution to get the best capture.
Then go to Application folder / then to Utilities folder and open Grab.
Go to the menu of Grab and select –Capture - then Selection- you can then draw a box around what you want and take a picture of it. Save it and you have your picture. It will not be as good as the original – but it pretty good.

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