Automatic frame selection and action shot generation techniques in a digital medium environment are described. A computing device identifies an object in a foreground of video data. A determination is then made by the computing device as to motion of the object exhibited between frames of the video data. A subset of frames is then selected by the computing device based on a determined motion of the identified object depicting an action sequence. An action shot is generated by the computing device by overlaying the identified objects in the selected frames on a background.