Save Snapshot To File

[Xana Raquel]

You can only save as JPG or PNG.
PNG is lossless and JPG is at 90%-100% quality (judging by the file size).

There isn’t any option for the quality of the snapshot.

[Jorma Nippala]

Set your Preview monitor to Best/Full.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/925460
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/936595

[Joao Souza]

It’s already.
Let’s say I take a snapshot, when I import it, it has less quality, looks a little bit ou of focus/ darker and position is not the same, it moved a little.

I had to play video with windows media player, pause it and hit print screen.
Open it in photoshop and saved as jpeg.
Imported in vegas and it worked but why vegas snapshot isn’t?

We have so much time and so little to do! / Willy Wonka

[Roger Bansemer]

It use to make a difference several versions back as about setting the preview to full, half, etc. but on the last several versions, it makes no difference that the preview is set to. Either way, the file comes out the same size.

[Joao Souza]

Nope, when I import it has a different position, a tiny difference but you can see it moved and it’s darker with less focus.
I’m using vegas 11.

We have so much time and so little to do! / Willy Wonka

[Aleksey Tarasov]

For best results, you need to set Preview quality to Best/Full, Deinterlace method to Interpolate, Field Order to Progressive, Rendering Quality to Best. Then save your snapshot. (if you use Vegasaur’s Snapshots tool, you do not need to complete these steps, just click the button)

Vegas supports only JPEG and PNG.
You can set JPEG quality in Internal settings (by default 95%)

[Stephen Mann]

For best results, you need to set Preview quality to Best/Full

Not since Version 10. The screenshot is always at “best”.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Nigel O’neill]

[Joao Souza] “Let’s say I take a snapshot, when I import it, it has less quality, looks a little bit ou of focus/ darker and position is not the same, it moved a little.”

Interlaced scan refers to one of two common methods for “painting” a video image on an electronic display screen (the other being progressive scan) by scanning or displaying each line or row of pixels. This technique uses two fields to create a frame. One field contains all the odd lines in the image, the other contains all the even lines of the image. A PAL-based television set display, for example, scans 50 fields every second (25 odd and 25 even). The two sets of 25 fields work together to create a full frame every 1/25 of a second (or 25 frames per second), but with interlacing create a new half frame every 1/50 of a second (or 50 frames per second).

To display interlaced video on progressive scan displays, deinterlacing is applied to the video signal.

When you take a screen shot, you are effectively only getting either one of the two sets of scans.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 11 (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6