• VEGAS Pro

  Still Frame with Movie Studio

  Posted by Arthur144 on October 30, 2007 at 4:13 pm

  I know that Vegas Pro has velocity envelopes to do this, but if I want a frame in a clip to freeze, is taking a snapshot from the preview window the way to do this?

  If so, I can only get this to work with the “save to file” option. The “copy to clipboard” button appears to do nothing, i.e., the paste option is not available to edit the frame into the timeline. What am I doing wrong?

  Thanks,

  -Arthur

  Edward Troxel replied 18 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  Edward Troxel

  October 30, 2007 at 4:33 pm

  [arthur144] “The “copy to clipboard” button appears to do nothing”

  The “copy to clipboard” option copies it to the CLIPBOARD. You would then need to go into your photo editing program and paste it there.

  For your purposes, you would, indeed, need the save option so the saved file could be imported back to the timeline.

  Edward Troxel
  
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  Terry Esslinger

  October 30, 2007 at 9:11 pm

  When you take that ‘snapshot’ it not omnly adds it to the file location that you have chosen but it also adds it to the project media bin.
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  Arthur144

  October 31, 2007 at 12:53 am

  Yes, I noticed that the snapshot file appears in the project media bin, which makes sense.

  What I also noticed is that the resolution of the snapshot is 327 x 240 which is not what I would expect. Shouldn’t the snapshot be 720 x 480? Is there a setting or something that I am not doing?

  – Arthur
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  Mike Kujbida

  October 31, 2007 at 3:42 am

  Assuming that Movie Studio works like Vegas for this function, set your Preview Window to Best/Full.
  The resolution comes out to 655 x 480 (square pixel version of 720 x 480).
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  Arthur144

  October 31, 2007 at 10:44 am

  Yes, Movie Studio does allow one to vary the resolution of the preview window so I assume it works the same as in Vegas Pro.

  Intuitively, I would have thought that the snapshot was taken at the resolution of the timeline not the preview window. I keep the preview window at a lower resolution to conserve CPU when editing. In any case, I will change the preview window resolution, retake the snapshot and see what happens.
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  Edward Troxel

  October 31, 2007 at 1:41 pm

  This is another one of the advantages of using the full version. Using a script, you can have the script change the screen resolution to “Best (Full)” (and make a couple other changes such as deinterlacing the project), save the snapshot, and then reset all the settings back to where they were. Then you don’t have to worry about changing them back and forth.

  Of course if you had the full version, you wouldn’t need to take the snapshot anyway as you’d just use the velocity envelope as you previously mentioned.

  Edward Troxel
  

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