• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Stoopid freeze frame Q

  Posted by Walter Miale on January 10, 2010 at 8:28 pm

  Now when I create freeze frames (FCP 7) I’m losing the color and getting a monochromatic image. There’s nothing in Help on this.

  ?!

  Walter

  Tom Wolsky replied 16 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 6 Replies
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  Tom Wolsky

  January 10, 2010 at 9:28 pm

  What format are you working in? How are you making the freeze frame?

  All the best,

  Tom

  Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
  Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”
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  Walter Miale

  January 10, 2010 at 10:39 pm

  Thanks, that helped.

  DV SD footage imported into a ProRes 422 timeline. I clicked on Make Freeze Frame while in the View window. But I was outside the In and Out limits of the clip. It didn’t help to dupe the seq and change the In and Put points, but what did help was to just create the freeze frame and then to paste the attributes from the original clip into it.

  Doesn’t seem an ideal method, does it? I can’t see a difference on the screen, but I’d like to do it losslessly.

  Walter
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  Tom Wolsky

  January 10, 2010 at 10:57 pm

  Wow! You completely lost me with that procedure. I really can’t tell what you’re doing, but if you are making a freeze frame in the timeline you just have to put the playhead on the frame you want and press Shift-N.

  All the best,

  Tom

  Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
  Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”
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  Walter Miale

  January 11, 2010 at 12:05 am

  OK, that’s what I always do. I just did it again. But now, for obscure (to me) reasons, the freeze frame that results is radically desaturated. Not entirely monochromatic, but almost.

  Gremlins?
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  Walter Miale

  January 11, 2010 at 12:49 am

  A clue: the monochromatic image was before filtering. For some reason, making the freeze frame seems to have removed the attributes.
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  Tom Wolsky

  January 11, 2010 at 4:05 pm

  Set Render All to have Full checked on. Render and make the freeze. It should work. If not, render and export a still image.

  All the best,

  Tom

  Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
  Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

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