freeze final frame

[Edward Troxel]

I use a velocity envelope and then change the speed to 0% at that point.

If it’s really the LAST frame of a clip, you can just make the event longer and turn off looping and the last frame will simply be repeated.

If it’s NOT the last frame of a clip, you could make a sub-click where it IS the last frame and then do the above making it longer and turning off looping.

You could also take a snapshot of that last frame and then put that snapshot on the timeline at that point and stretch it out as long as needed.

There’s MANY ways to do this.

Edward Troxel

[Alex Bennett]

Thanks Ed. I can’t do the velocity envelope as I don’t think that it comes on Movie Studio. The other methods work fine, and I particularly like the simplicity of lengthening and switching off looping. Am I correct in supposing that if the clip contains movement the frozen final frame will be slightly fuzzy

[Edward Troxel]

It potentially could. Taking a deinterlace snapshot should take care of that.

Edward Troxel

[Alex Bennett]

How do I take a deinterlaced snapshot, please?

[Edward Troxel]

A couple of ways:

Take a snapshot and then use the “deinterlace” option in your photo editor.

Change your project properties to Progressive before taking a snapshot. When using a script, these changes are made (and then reset when finished):

Vegas.Project.Preview.RenderQuality = Best;
Vegas.Project.Preview.FullSize = true;
Vegas.Project.Video.FieldOrder = ProgressiveScan;
Vegas.Project.Video.DeinterlaceMethod = InterpolateFields;

Since you’re on “Movie Studio” and can’t use scripts, you can manually make these same changes before taking the snapshot and then change them back when done. The first two are important and are done by changing the preview mode to “Best (Full)”. The other two are under File – Properties.

Edward Troxel

[Alex Bennett]

Second method worked perfectly! Many thanks Ed.