Select frame for thumbnail

Opampman wrote on 11/20/2006, 6:16 PM
I have been using Vegas since v3 and DVDA since 1, but I have never figured out how to advance the frame selector for the button thumbnail by single frame increments. I know there has to be some way more simple than sliding the slider but I can't figure it out. If I want to use a still fram from the video for the button, there has to be some method more accurate than the slider. Clue me in, please.

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/20/2006, 6:46 PM
just type a time in. i normally load the vid in vegas & see what times I want for a thumb & use that time.
bStro wrote on 11/21/2006, 6:37 AM
For smaller increments, hold down the CTRL key while you drag the slider.

Rob
navydoc wrote on 11/22/2006, 10:37 AM
...Or you could use the right arrow/left arrow on your keyboard to move a frame at a time once the slider is revealed.

Doc
bStro wrote on 11/22/2006, 1:15 PM
Unless things have changed in DVDA4, the arrow keys don't move one frame at a time in the thumbnail slider; they move in increments of 1% of the video's total length.

Rob
BruceDale wrote on 11/22/2006, 2:18 PM
Just use Alt and the right or left arrow key. By the way, I use that in Vegas all the time too.
bStro wrote on 11/22/2006, 2:45 PM
What version of DVDA? 'Cause in my DVDA3, using the ALT key while trying to arrow along the thumbnail-select slider does nothing. Nada. Zip. The slider doesn't even move. CTRL and SHIFT with the arrow keys give me the exact same 1% movements that the arrow keys alone do.

Rob
BruceDale wrote on 11/22/2006, 3:41 PM
I'm using DVDA4 now but ALT worked in DVDA3 too. Just now I opened up DVDA3 and tried it to make sure I'm not just imagining things. The focus has to be in the timeline window and then it just works. CTRL with the arrow keys moves by chapters in both versions. And I just discovered that if you zoom way in on the video, the arrow keys by themselves move one frame at a time. SHIFT doesn't seem to change anything.
BruceDale wrote on 11/22/2006, 3:46 PM
Look in Help -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Timeline Window. It's there.
bStro wrote on 11/22/2006, 3:53 PM
Please re-read the thread. I wasn't referring to the timeline.

Select a button on a menu that you're designing. Go to the Properies window and find the Thumbnail media section. Select the Start Time and click the drop-down arrow on the right of it.

That slider that pops up is what we were discussing. It's what the original poster asked about, as well as what all of my responses have been in reference to. :)

Rob
ECB wrote on 11/22/2006, 4:03 PM
Here is another way to set the thumbnail to a specific frame. Double click on the media button on the menu. Go to the media timeline and move to the frame you want to display in the media button using the the Alt + Arrow keys (or shuttle) to move in one frame increments. When you find the frame you want to use right click on the movie (highlighted) in Project Properties and select Set thumbnail from view.

Ed
bStro wrote on 11/22/2006, 4:06 PM
Nifty, ECB. I forgot about that one, and it's probably the quickest and most painless.

Rob
BruceDale wrote on 11/22/2006, 4:29 PM
That's the way I've always done it. I didn't know the slider existed. Learn something new all the time.