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BillyBoy wrote on 3/22/2003, 12:01 PM
A bug? No. When you take a snapshot you're saving it in a different format, JPEG, whatever... and because of that it won't be exactly the same as the MPEG file or AVI, whatever... you took the snapshot from.

What you're doing isn't the smartest way to proceed. You can use a velocity envelope to stop the action for any time period you want, then resume if desired. This can be used for example to have a "still" of the last frame appear for several seconds.
vidman77 wrote on 3/22/2003, 8:15 PM

Actually, whether it's the smartest way to proceed or not, it should work this way. It works this way in Premier, DPS Velocity and Avid Media Composer with no problem, and the format of the still file has no bearing on it. It creates a perfect match whether a .jpg, .bmp, .tif, or whatever. However, the velocity envelope is very neat trick, and I appreciate your showing it to me.

I still think it's a bug though. thanks
Clyde200 wrote on 3/22/2003, 8:38 PM
"When I make a still frame from a clip on the timeline, then paste the still into the timeline for a freeze effect, the values of the still are different from the clip I just used. Even when I remove all treatments to the clip and make the still from the raw clip, the still is darker. "

I was doing this exact thing today with no problem what-so-ever. Are you setting the preview window to "Best" (or "Best(full)" if you have V4) ?
BillyBoy wrote on 3/22/2003, 8:57 PM
If you're going to do by capturing a still...

Subject: RE: capturing stills
Posted by: SonicDennis (Ignore This User)
Date: 7/14/2002 7:55:24 AM

No problem, you can get clean, full-size still images from Vegas.

Right-click on the Video Preview and pick "Display at project size".

Set your project property "Interlace" format to "progressive" and the (advanced property) "Deinterlace method" to "Interpolate" so you won't get any interlace artifacts in your images. Make sure to set the interlace property back before you render your project, you only want progressive for the still capture step.

Use "Save Timeline snapshot to file" because it deals with pixel aspect ratio, while "Copy Snapshot" does not.

That should get you a decent quality snapshot. However when you merge it back into your video if you look real close both levels and hue may be slighly different.