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[John Davidson]

“Option R” was one of those ‘aha’ shortcuts for me. I love doing it now. I “option R” everything.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[David Eaks]

Another simple way to do it, and keep your grade etc. would be-

Create freeze frame (Option-F)
Copy freeze frame (Command-C)
Undo create freeze frame (Command-Z)
Paste as connected clip (Option-V)

Something like shift-option-F to create a freeze frame as a connected clip would be nice though.

[Marcus Moore]

As if by coincidence- or Larry Jordan is trolling these forums!

https://www.larryjordan.biz/fcp-x-create-freeze-frames/

[Jacob Brown]

a lot of times i export a tiff of the current frame through the share menu, then just drag/import that tiff into the appropriate event. its an extra step but then i have the frozen frame ready to rock right there in the event.

also, often times, i want to clean up the frame in photoshop before importing