Taking a snapshot (jpeg) of my video at the cursor point

[Mike Johnson]

Go to File > Export > QuickTime Conversion. Then select Still Image from the dropdown menu. You can then click Settings to specify the file type and compression.

Mike Johnson

Final Cut Pro Editor

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[Tom Wolsky]

Do you mean a freeze frame? Shift-N will do it.

All the best,

Tom

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[Bill Dewald]

To take a really quick and dirty screenshot on a mac, hit apple-shift-4. Your cursor will turn into a crosshair. Create a box by dragging, and the system will save it to the desktop.

While the crosshair is enabled, tap spacebar to toggle through your open windows.

[David Roth weiss]

Or, hit apple-shift-4 and the space bar, which turns your cursor into an icon that looks like an SLR camera. Move that over various parts of your monitor and it will automatically highlight various selections, which you can capture as a still by hitting the enter key. It save those pix to your desktop as Picture “#”, as in Picture 1, Picture 2, etc.

David Roth Weiss
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Los Angeles

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[Terrel Miller]

I shoot with a Sony Z1 and import using firewire to FCP HD. What setting should I use in the still image options to export a still frame of video keeping the HD quality and aspect ratio? So far I have only been able to get stills that are distorted.

[David Roth weiss]

They are anamorphic, like your video. Open the stills in Photoshop and resize to 1920×1080. Yes, it’s a pain, but a necessary pain.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

[Javed Rasool]

I have jpegs which I want to add to my time line. I want to make the jpeg move like a moving object, or pop up or flip. How do I do this on FCP. And i want the pix to be seen as a poloroid shot etc. How do i do it on FCP. Please help

Regards

Javed

[Gunnar Forsgren]

This post clarified things
https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/fcpx-trick-creating-a-freeze-frame-in-final-cut-pro-x-using-the-retiming-tool/

Shift N no longer works in FCP X
but exporting a still works.