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Debugmode FrameServer works 4U?
Looking for a way to export a still image from Vegas (is there something in the book or help file that I’m too blind to see?) I came across references to Debugmode FrameServer on this forum. It’s free. I downloaded it. But I can’t get it to work. When I tell it to start, the clock just starts adding up time and the propgress bar goes nowhere. It’s such as simple little app that I can’t imagine what might be wrong. Any thoughts from successful still exporters here?
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You can always export a series of stills via scripting. However, that will be slower than frameserving.
To get frameserving to work, you start a render to the frameserver. Then you open up another application and “open” that stub file with the other program. Do what you need to do in the other program and Vegas will stream the frames as requested by the other program.
Edward Troxel
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Thanks for the post. Actually, I just want one still; not a series of them. If you can refer me to a script that will do that quickly, I would appreciate it. I’m not a scripting kind of guy, actually, but I’ll give it a shot. I know I should learn something about that since it appears to be one of the powers of Vegas.
Anyway, I tried as you suggested but my problem is that no file is being created by the FrameServer. Nothing shows up in the tgarget folder — either as viewed by Windows Explorer or in the “Open” command from Photoshop. And the FrameServer progress bar just stays at 0% while the clocks counts up the time.
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The percent should remain at 0% as nothing is being requested from Vegas by another program. Not sure why a file wouldn’t be created.
As for a single still, simply click on the “Save Snapshot” button just above the preview screen (looks like a floppy disk)
To get better quality, you’ll want to change to Best(Full) preview mode and maybe even change the project to progressive. Scripts can help by doing all of the changes for you and then change them all back. Excalibur does this all for you but there are some free scripts for simply doing snapshots.
Vol 1 Issue 5 of my newsletter talks about saving snapshots and also provides the scripting instructions for doing so via a script.
To make it very easy, here’s a script that will perform this function:
https://www.jetdv.com/scripts/SnapshotToFile.jsEdward Troxel
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Thanks, Ed. As it happens, I had saved your newsletters and I appreciate the information in that issue. I was only able to get small, low-res stills out of Vegas before. Now I see why. Thanks again.
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The preview window is a video overlay. When you grab a screen shot Vegas just grabs the buffer and either saves it or puts it on the clipboard. Either way, you only get what’s in the buffer and if you have the preview window scaled down and in draft mode then that’s what you’ll get in the still image as well.
When you save the buffer as a still image file, Vegas adjusts the pixel aspect ratio and adds the file to the media pool. Generally handy if that’s what you want.
Rob Mack
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