freeze frame

Rv6tc wrote on 4/20/2006, 10:57 PM
Forgive me if this is simple.....

I have a clip in slow motion that I want to get to the end and stop on the last frame so that I can extend it for several more seconds. Over that portion, I want to crossfade through the next clip. Under "Switches" I turned "Loop" off and thought that would do it, but I can't extend the last frame like I need to.

I tried to take a snapshot and use that, but when I try to overlay the crossfade, it does funky things.

Any ideas?

It's late, so I apologize if this is not making sense.

Thanks.

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IanG wrote on 4/21/2006, 2:15 AM
>I tried to take a snapshot and use that, but when I try to overlay the crossfade, it does funky things.

Using a snapshot is the right approach - could you give a bit more detail about the "funky things"?

Ian G.
Chienworks wrote on 4/21/2006, 4:38 AM
Did you make sure you got a full frame size snapshot? The snapshot function captures the frame at whatever size is displayed in the preview window. Quite often this is only 1/2 or 1/3 resolution and you'll end up with a pixellated snapshot. To make sure you get a full resolution still, change the preview display to Best/Full (in newer versions of Vegas Studio) or Display at project size (in older versions of Screenblast or Video Factory).
Rv6tc wrote on 4/21/2006, 12:50 PM
Kelly (?),

Thanks. I will try later with the full resolution. I did not know htat.

Ian, I need the crossfade to cover the full still, and when I tried to do that earlier, it covered the entire clip and the crossfade did not work properly. I'm going to try to bring the crossfade within a few frames to keep it from doing that, and I'll let you know if it worked.

Thanks for the responses.

Rv6tc wrote on 4/21/2006, 1:47 PM
Every snapshot that I grab is larger than the video that I took it from. I have tried every setting from draft through best, both in "full" and "Auto". It's like it's saving the snapshot as a different size/resolution.

Why is it doing this, or better said, What am I missing?
Chienworks wrote on 4/21/2006, 3:19 PM
The snapshot should be saved at the project resolution if you use Full/Best. If you haven't changed any options then this will be 655x480. What size is your video? What are your project settings? What size are the stills you're getting?
Rv6tc wrote on 4/21/2006, 7:30 PM
I am using the standard NTSC DV template. It's 720*480. But when I checked the properties of the snapshot, it shows 327x240x24. I am using the "best" setting.

I've dont this before and it's never been an issue. I really don't know what I'm doing wrong. And for the record, I'm using Platinum 6.0a.

Thank you for you time and help. I do appreciate it.

Keith
Tim L wrote on 4/21/2006, 8:30 PM
Make sure you are using "Best/Full", which will construct a full-size frame image, even if your preview window is too small to see the whole thing.

You can also use "Best/Auto", but in this case, VMS scales the image so it fits into your preview window -- whatever size you have for your window. If you use "Best/Auto", make sure you undock your preview window and stretch it out until it shows you are viewing a full 720x480 image.

Tim L
Rv6tc wrote on 4/21/2006, 8:46 PM
Thanks Tim,

I did both... I undocked the preview window and made sure that it was at 720x480. I also made sure that it was set to "Best/Full". When I captured the snapshot, it was better... but still 655x480 and enlarged.

Any more ideas?

ETA: I just tried this with other projects and it works just fine. It seems to be just the current project. It was originally analog, and I captured it to digital with a camera pass-through. I can only assume that has caused the problem. Thanks for all the help. I'll figure a work-around.
Chienworks wrote on 4/22/2006, 5:29 AM
655x480 is what you're supposed to get. What do you mean by "enlarged"? It should slide into your timeline and look exactly like the frame it was captured from.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and do some guessing. Since you captured this from analog, you probably had some messy edges around the video, right? Did you use Track Motion to zoom in slightly and cut off the edges? If so, what you see in the preview and what you get in your snapshot is only a portion of the frame. If you then drop that frame on the timeline with the same zoom it will have even more of the edges cut off and look larger. If that's the case then you need to either capture the frame without the zoom, or not zoom in on that snapshot.
Rv6tc wrote on 4/22/2006, 9:02 AM
I haven't used any track motion or pan/crop to enlarge it. The "noise band" that I get from the analog signal drops out on the TV safe zone, so I don't bother zooming or putting a black bar over it. So basically, no, I'm using the footage without any size corrections.

That is what the snapshot's look like, though. It looks as though it has been enlarged by about 20 % compared to the original video.

I'll go try a different project that has been captured from analog and see if it's the same. It could be a quirk from the capture process.

Thanks again for your help.

ETA: I tried the snapshot with other projects with analog video that was captured and they work just fine. So that would seem to say that it is a problem with this particular project. I'm going to look at all my preferences and see if I did something weird with a setting.

ETA: One final time.... Kelly, here's one for you. I was going to try to use the pan/crop to shrink the snapshot down to the correct size. So I put it on the video line above the one I have the project media on and was going to lower the opacity to see if I could get the size to match. When I put it on the upper video line, it came in at the same size as the source video. You move it down a line, and it gets larger, move it back up and it fits just fine. I have no idea what it's doing, but at least I can get it to work. Thanks again for all your help. It's great how you help all us newbies.