• Avid Media Composer

  Freeze frame Avid MC6 question

  Posted by Sheree Day on November 9, 2016 at 6:51 am

  Just wondering if it’s possible to grab a freeze frame from the Record monitor in AVID MC6?

  Why you ask?

  After laying out everything on the timeline I add a watermark in the lower thirds left side, and I need an image of one shot within the sequence to make a jpeg (or any image format not just jpeg – it can be TIFF etc).

  When I put the playhead over the timeline and click on the record monitor and go to clip / freeze frame, the freeze frame is grey so I can’t use it.

  I did put the image full screen and do a screen shot, but I was wondering if it’s possible to do it within Avid?

  Thanks in advance for assistance.

  Sheree Day replied 9 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
• 3 Replies

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  Ricky Barrow

  November 9, 2016 at 12:38 pm

  You can “Export” a graphic file – many choices: JPEG, PNG etc.

  Ricky
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  Glenn Sakatch

  November 9, 2016 at 2:38 pm

  Here is how i’ve done it for years…bit of a PITA, but in reality, it takes about 5 to 10 seconds total.

  mark an in/out point on your timeline to get a duration of 1 frame at the point you want to freeze.

  Then create a video mixdown of that section (because its only 1 frame it takes up hardly any space, and is instantaneous)

  load that video mixdown in the source viewer

  create a freeze frame of that

  Glenn
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  Sheree Day

  November 10, 2016 at 6:17 am

  Thanks Glenn that was brilliant – I tried and it worked perfectly

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