Grab a frame and make a picture

[Jeff Farr]

Sure, just get the image you want to appear in your preview and click the far right icon, “Save Snapshot to file”

[Edward Troxel]

For better quality, change the preview mode to Best (Full) first. For even better quality you can also change things like changing the project to progressive to deinterlace the image. The simplest way is via a script which can make all the proper changes for you, save the snapshot, and then change all the settings back to the way you had them. For more details, take a look at vol 1 #5 of my newsletters.

Edward Troxel

[Themitchx]

Thanks Jeff, but when I get the image in my preview window, those last two icons seem to be greyed out. They are available when the preview area is black (obviously not very useful though!?).

Any idea what I’m doing wrong?

[Edward Troxel]

You must still be on Vegas 4 or 3. What you need to do is turn OFF external preview and they will be available once again.

Edward Troxel