Save a single photo from timeline

DavidMcKnight wrote on 10/16/2003, 10:03 AM
Folks, my apologies up front. I'm pretty sure I've seen the answer to this not too long ago, but I cannot find it. I've searched back to the beginning of the month and can't find it. Also looked in help.

Anyway, what I want to do is put the cursor in the timeline, and save that exact frame as a bmp or jpeg. Kinda like what DVDA does for thumbnails, but I cannot find any generated media that that DVDA creates.

So, if a kind soul could point me to a previous thread on this topic I could get this project finished a LOT faster!

thanks,
David

Comments

jetdv wrote on 10/16/2003, 10:06 AM
Are you talking in Vegas or DVDA? In Vegas, just click on the floppy icon above the preview window.
DavidMcKnight wrote on 10/16/2003, 10:17 AM
Of course. Thank You!!

David
johnmeyer wrote on 10/16/2003, 11:25 AM
Make sure that before you click on the floppy icon that you change the preview resolution to "Best" (just to the left of the floppy icon). This will give you a 654x480 capture (if you are starting with NTSC DV video). If you want to capture 720x480 to disk, you will have to change the "Pixel Aspect Ratio" in the Project Properties (in the File menu) from 0.9091 to 1.0000.
rmack350 wrote on 10/16/2003, 12:29 PM
John,

That's an interesting workaround for getting full frames as files-rather than going the clipboard route.

Of course one should want full frame 720x480 stills because a 654x480 still loses a bit of info. Shows up most for me in pictures of motherboards where the pinholes and traces turn to mush.

BTW, "Best" does bicubic interpolation and gives you a sharp image if you are resizing things in the frame. It makes no difference at all if you are just grabbing stills from DV footage but it might be a good habit never-the-less. Especially if you are grabbing stills from a project with pan-and-scan in it.

Rob Mack
johnmeyer wrote on 10/16/2003, 1:32 PM
I need to amend my earlier post (as shown in italic below):

Make sure that before you click on the floppy icon that you change the preview resolution to "Best" (just to the left of the floppy icon). This will give you a 654x480 capture (if you are starting with NTSC DV video). If you want to capture 720x480 to disk, you will have to change the "Pixel Aspect Ratio" in the Project Properties (in the File menu) from 0.9091 to 1.0000 and you also need to change the event properties from 0.9091 to 1.0000