Sorry if I'm being dumb but I right clicked and no option came up to create a subclip. I then thought maybe you meant me to copy and paste it, which I did but the clip still wouldn't stretch.

Vegas Movie Studio 10 will create subclips. Not sure about other versions.

As an alternative, set your Preview at Best/Full, and Render to New Track. Then you can use that trimmed clip for your freeze frame

Thanks - just to clarify - copy the clip to a new project and render it, then insert that as the still in my original project? How does having the preview at best/full help?

No.

Select your clip.
Tools->Render to New Track

Do you have this option?

Yes! Just trying it now but as I have a 10 minute vid rendering also, it'll take some time. Fingers crossed it will work and many thanks for your help once again.

Sadly, it hasn't worked :-(

It wouldn't let me select the single end clip to render as a new track, it had to render the whole lot (tried 3 times). I deleted everything from the new except the one scene I wanted but when I dragged it (stretched) it still continued to play what followed next on the video.

I still don't understand why it should do it on this one though? I have to upload a 3 part walk tonight and that is the middle one - the other two stretched fine and I should be able to post a link tomorrow if it's required (which I doubt).

I'm most grateful to you but I still don't understand why stretch works with the first and third projects but not the second when they were all taken at the same time (so to speak!)

Too late now for this project but I would love to get it sorted should it happen again.

If you double-click on the edited clip to select it, it selects the Loop Region, which is the part that you want to render.

Then, in the Render to New Track dialog, there is a checkbox to "Render Loop Region Only." That is what you want to do.

Maybe when you are done with this project, you will have more time to familiarize yourself with the excellent tutorials and help program that comes with Vegas.

TVPC has VMS9P so no subclips.

What you should so is position the cursor on the last frame of the video and save that frame (snapshot) by clicking on the the floppy drive icon at the top of the preview window. Then bring that snapshot back into the timeline and stretch that still image out as long as you need. That's the best way to do a freeze-frame in VMS.

Musicvid: I do hear what you are saying and I have worked through some of the help files and tutorials - honest! Problem is there is a whole backlog of videos to do and my friend seems to think I can learn this software overnight, having no experience of video editing. I have a book on VMS on order too ........!

I have worked out why it worked on projects parts 1 and 3 though which may be useful to others .......

If the end video clip has not been split - it will stretch to create a freeze frame but if it has been split, it won't. Creating the new track makes it a new unsplit clip and then it will stretch :-)

It was because I could do it before that I asked - thinking I may have changed a setting somehow; if I'm trying something new I do try to look elsewhere first - honest!

The point being that the end of the event on the timeline is not the end of the clip, so when you drag the end point you're simple exposing more of the clip that you had previously cut off.

Mike

Yes - I get that now. :-) And I've practised the new track and loop thing and it works perfectly :-) :-) :-)

Note that you don't have to render the entire event on the timeline to accomplish this. You could select a very tiny portion, indeed just the very last frame you want to see. Bring this piece back into the project and replace that same last little bit with the new file. No need to put the entire clip into it.

"Yes - I get that now. :-) And I've practised the new track and loop thing and it works perfectly :-) :-) :-)"

You are beginning to catch hold -- I can predict from your posts that you will find the learning curve with this software more difficult than you expected, and the results more rewarding than you expected.

Welcome to the forums, and good luck.
Keep reading!

Just to add, now I have more experience ..... Simplest way to stretch a clip and it not keep playing is to RIGHT click the image, go to 'Switches' and untick the 'Loop' box - works for me 95% of the time. :-)

Note that it works 100% of the time when the end of the event on the timeline is the end of the clip, and it works 0% of the time if you have trimmed the end of the event so that there is more of the clip than what you see on the timeline.