capturing stills

ethical wrote on 7/14/2002, 5:27 AM

i have a friend who wants to make educational videos and have booklets that go with them
we want to capture stills from the video to go in the booklets
is vegas good for this???
we're experimenting now but when we grab the stills within vegas and then go to import it into a photo program it imports it at half resolution [the same as it shows the still in the preview window]half of the 787x576 res we were hoping for
any ideas folks?

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SonyDennis wrote on 7/14/2002, 7:55 AM

No problem, you can get clean, full-size still images from Vegas.

Right-click on the Video Preview and pick "Display at project size".

Set your project property "Interlace" format to "progressive" and the (advanced property) "Deinterlace method" to "Interpolate" so you won't get any interlace artifacts in your images. Make sure to set the interlace property back before you render your project, you only want progressive for the still capture step.

Use "Save Timeline snapshot to file" because it deals with pixel aspect ratio, while "Copy Snapshot" does not.

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asafb wrote on 7/14/2002, 5:01 PM

SonicDennis, what about for the actual dvd? I want to take stills also from my AVI's, and then make like a slideshow with crossfades, see what i mean? I want it to become my video menu which I will then author with Impression DVD-Pro from Pinnacle, my DVD authoring program. (obviously i will need to render to mpeg2.)

SonyDennis wrote on 7/15/2002, 9:40 AM

The take a bunch of snapshots using the above method, open a new Vegas project, and drop them all on the timeline. Insert crossfades or transitions as desired, render to MPEG-2, DVD.
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