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Leonard wrote on 3/4/2001, 10:43 PM
In the preview window there is an icon that looks like two
sheets of paper. When you click it, Video Factory will
place a "snapshot" of the current frame on the Windows
clipboard. From there, you can paste it into a paint
program and save it in whatever format you want. If anyone
knows a shorter way to use still frames in a project, I'd
like to hear it.
Aussie wrote on 3/30/2001, 2:21 AM
I can get the snap into the clipboard, but how do you paste
it? I try to save it as a jpg but photoshop does not
recognise it.

There is another way but because I have done it before but
forgotten how!
SonyEPM wrote on 3/30/2001, 9:58 AM
Use the copy snapshot button in VF, create a new empty
image in your image editing tool, and paste. The image
should be there- so save out as .png or whatever. (.png is
cool if you use alpha channels and want to reimport to VF.)
jazz wrote on 4/1/2001, 9:39 PM
If the preview window is small, the copy process you speak
of generates the same small image. If I choose to "Display
at Project Size" I get the image with the right number of
pixels, but my pasted image appears blurred or fuzzy. This
does not appear to be the same quality of image that should
have been captured by DV capture. Am I mistaken? This
does not seem acceptable.

As a separate question, I would like to be able to freeze
frame and image in the middle of an event. Splitting and
then stretching don't work because it just expands the
event again, not the image at the event. It would seem
saving a single image and then reinserting it as event and
then stretching the event would be the only way. IF I
can't save an exact quality image, however, what's the
point. Please help.
SonyEPM wrote on 4/2/2001, 9:36 AM
"If the preview window is small, the copy process you speak
of generates the same small image. If I choose to "Display
at Project Size" I get the image with the right number of
pixels, but my pasted image appears blurred or fuzzy.
"
Tear off the Video Preview window and size that to the
frame size (ie, 720x480 for NTSC DV), set the preview
quality to best, and then grab the snapshot.

"I would like to be able to freeze
frame and image in the middle of an event"

Vegas has the capability to do this. With VideoFactory, you
would need to export the still, save it (as a bmp or png
ideally- jpeg is lossy), and then splice that into your
video. Kind of a workaround, but this is a pro feature only
available in Vegas (w/ the velocity envelope)