Help please from VV person who copies frames to import into Photshop or other paint application?

tedbuchanan wrote on 5/8/2001, 12:10 PM
I get distortion when viewing or printing captued frames in Photoshop. Any sugestions will be treasured!

I have DV footage captured with Vidcap e. In VV, I use DV template and have the preview window set at
"project size" which is 720x480, non-square pixel, .901(or something like that) pixel aspect ratio.
I press COPY buttion in preview window in VV, then open Photoshop. Before I can paste, I have to specify in
PS the size of the canvas to open. What should it be?
720x480x72 or 720x480x150 or something else?.
I seem to get some distortion in PS no matter what.. Is there some secret like using settings in VV other
than the DV template before I COPY. ...or should I set to square pixels before pressing copy, or should I use a
different pixel aspect ratio?
Any help getting a better proportioned PS file to print would make me so happy because I've tried so many
settings without success. Thanks. barb.

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SonyEPM wrote on 5/8/2001, 12:18 PM
Vegas Settings (for DV screen grabs):

Project: NTSC DV template, change field order to
progressive.

Preview: Display at project size, Best quality

copy to clip board

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Photoshop settings:

720x480x72 RGB

(if an image is in the windows clipboard, pshop defaults to
a new file of that size. If you see something other than
720x480x72 in pshop file>new, its possible Vegas is set up
incorrectly.)
dpearce wrote on 5/8/2001, 12:24 PM
Some applications distort the resultant capture so they
won't blend into VV cleanly.

Here's what I do which does work: Press copy then bring up
Paint (ya, Windows Paint) and press paste. Do not change
the selection frame and press Edit, Copy To and specify a
BMP filename.

This BMP can then be placed in the VV project and it will
produce no transition problems.

If you need to edit the BMP, try it now in Photoshop, but
try leaving it in BMP. I haven't tried to see if Photoshop
messes with the BMP enough to produce problems going into
VV.

Hope this helps...
tedbuchanan wrote on 5/8/2001, 12:45 PM
to: D Pearce and Sonic. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Your quick help has totally improved my mood as I face a night of editing. THANKS.