Snapshot file size, FYI

wordman wrote on 1/21/2010, 4:16 PM
I use snapshots with many of my video projects, and recently I discovered something that I want to share here because it is not (go figure) mentioned in the 'Help' file.

The size of your snapshot depends on the size of the video image in the Video Preview Window.

The larger you make the Video Preview Window, the larger and better will be your snapshots.

An FYI for ya.

Cheers,

wordman

Comments

rs170a wrote on 1/21/2010, 6:27 PM
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but snapshot size is totally dependent on the setting of your Preview window.
Setting it to any of the Draft/Full will always give you a smaller and poorer quality image than setting it to Best/Full which is the recommended setting for doing snapshots.
The way to confirm this is to look at the two sets of numbers at the bottom left of your Preview window.
One set is the Project and the other set is Preview.
This second set is the one that counts.

Mike
richard-amirault wrote on 1/21/2010, 8:48 PM
Or to put it in different words ... yes, the bigger the image the better the snap .. but for the *best* quality snap you need to set the Preview to BEST/FULL (those are pretty much the same words .. oh well) when you make the snap. You can always re-set it to whatever is your "normal" setting once you have finished "snapping"
ushere wrote on 1/22/2010, 3:36 AM
alternatively there's a tab for snapshots in excalibur where you can set the parameters...

and, iirc, there was a script called 'snapshot' which did it automatically (at best/full).

leslie
Tim L wrote on 1/22/2010, 4:37 AM
And still on this topic:

- You can set the preview to Best/Full and take a snapshot even your preview window is too small to show the full frame. (That is, FULL renders the image full size and will save a full size snapshot, even if the full image is too big to fit in your current preview window.)

- If you have interlaced video and you have a frame with slight motion in it, you might get better results (but not always) by momentarily setting your project properties to progressive (with a de-interlace method set) and taking the snapshot that way. Vegas will de-interlace the snapshot for you. Don't forget to reset the project to interlaced after taking the snapshot.

Tim L