that's short-sighted on sf part. i can think of plenty of reasons to export a series of images.

ok...satish...can you come up with a simple plug-in that will do this?

-craig

Premiere has this ability in that you can save to a filmstrip (.flm) file, which you can open in Photoshop. This is especially nice in the way of frame by frame editing (rotoscoping) The problem for me is..I would really use this feature but I hate, yes hate Premiere and refuse to become a user.

Even more apealing to me would be if Vegas had some sort of basic paint utility built into it. Something where you utilise even basic paint tools on a frame by frame basis, all in Vegas.

Hi All,

I have heard that Scenalyzer will convert an avi into a still-sequence, but the images may be BMPs...

I did write a RemoteKeyes macro to do this in Vegas, but it is quite the klooge, so you might try SClive first to see if it is useful.


HTH, MPH

Tips:
http://www.martyhedler.com/homepage/Vegas_Tutorials.html

OK..here's my point.

1. it should be just as easy to choose "export to image files" as to make an .avi

2. there are many reasons to want this feature.

a.) just like in 3d rendering, if you computer crashes, you don't have to re-
render the whole thing again. you just pick-up where you left off.

b.) i want to pull some frames of a character, then go into photoshop and "punch"
the character out of the scene. have you seen all the cool cartoon network
stuff? i'm betting they used a similar technique.

c.) what if you are doing something specialized, and you NEED to import an image
sequence (for whatever reason).


this is all to simple for me. i can't believe it's not in the program.

-craig

I like to use Virtual Dub for this. It's very fast & it deinterlaces as well. Each .BMP ends up being about 1MB.
I think we are going to see this in VV4 :-o

I think some misunderstood what I said. Sure it would be nice to be able to grab a series of frames but the little floppy icon over the preview window has only one purpose... to snap a single frame (snapshot) of whatever is in the preview window so you get a single still.

For now, if you want a bunch of stills, I'm with Salad, use Virtual Dub. Can't beat the price, its free.

*** "Premiere has this ability in that you can save to a filmstrip (.flm) file, which you can open in Photoshop. This is especially nice in the way of frame by frame editing (rotoscoping) The problem for me is..I would really use this feature but I hate, yes hate Premiere and refuse to become a user." ***

*** "OK..here's my point.

1. it should be just as easy to choose "export to image files" as to make an .avi

2. there are many reasons to want this feature.

a.) just like in 3d rendering, if you computer crashes, you don't have to re-
render the whole thing again. you just pick-up where you left off.

b.) i want to pull some frames of a character, then go into photoshop and "punch"
the character out of the scene. have you seen all the cool cartoon network
stuff? i'm betting they used a similar technique.

c.) what if you are doing something specialized, and you NEED to import an image
sequence (for whatever reason).


this is all to simple for me. i can't believe it's not in the program. " ***



I am soooooo much with you guys... And more: we should be able to export, too, to Photoshop. THAT would be paradise...