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dpearce wrote on 2/22/2001, 2:10 PM
(I sure hope there is a better way than this.)

Select the frame you want to freeze on then press the "Copy
Snapshot" button on the Video Preview window. This copies
it to the clipboard. You should split the video track at
this point.

Since VV wants to use only external files, you now have to
create a bitmap file of what is on the clipboard. The
easiest (sic!) way I found is to go to MS Paint and select
Edit Paste, then Edit "Copy to". This will create a bitmap
file of just your frame.

Now add the new bitmap file to the Media pool in VV and
drag and drop it to the exact same spot in the timeline you
did the original "Copy Snapshot".

Some graphics programs will not save the file properly
(adding rows or columns in the bitmap) resulting in a jerky
transistion. Paintbrush does not.

I've used this technique for some time and it works well.
SonyEPM wrote on 2/22/2001, 2:47 PM
alternative method:

1) find the frame of an event that you want to freeze

2) make a one-frame duration loop selection, hit split

3) now you have single frame event.

4) Create an event velocity envelope, set time to zero- now
you can stretch this event out over time.

5) If the footage is really active, you may have
interlacing jitter, so turning on event resample and/or
forcing the event to become progressive may help.

6) If you still see the jitter, render the frame out as a
progressive avi and bring it back it. Seldom, but
occaissionally, neccessary.

Rednroll wrote on 2/22/2001, 8:14 PM
Hey thanks Dave, That works great, I had to do that same
exact thing on a video project last week, only how I
accomplished it was zooming way in so that I could select 1
frame and then I held "Cntrl-alt-arrow key" to goto the end
of the event (ie frame) and then did a "repeat paste", 30
pastes for every 1 second at 30fps. This velocity envelope
thing seems to work much easier, one of these days I'll
learn all this video stuff.

Brian Franz
CDM wrote on 2/25/2001, 10:19 AM
and also, if you want to find the exact frame, don't forget
that you can use alt-arrow to move through the video frame
by frame, at any zoom level.