Pulling Stills from my timeline...JPEGs

CareyB

CareyB

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Doing my second film, a feature this time, and it's been several years since I was really up to speed with FCP. Well underway now and getting back in the groove...but I used to just drag single frames from timeline (or somewhere), or was it QT, to use off the timeline. Looking for someone to remind me what it was I was doing that was so easy to pull stills (same aspect ratio) from my project. It wasn't exporting via QT. Please help me during one of those duh moments.

Thanks,
 
Dick Campbell said:
stretch the image in Photoshop, PPT, or similar.
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Thought of that, but remember doing something that amounted to just drag and drop. Until I figure out what I was doing I'll do as you suggest...Thanks for your help. When I come up with something else will post it here.

Carey
 
NoahK said:
File>Export Using QuickTime Conversion... choose Still Image.

Noah
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That is the way I do it and it comes out fine, with the same aspect ratio of my sequence settings. I just did it in FCP 7 with an image from a 1080X1920 ProRes422 (HQ) sequence and it was fine. I am using Snow Leopard, but went back and installed Quicktime 7 (Quick Time Pro), not that QT crap version that comes with Snow Leopard. I would check your sequence settings, and see which version of QT you are using. I don't know if that is an issue, but it's worth a look. I have been editing with FCP for a long time, and I never learned how to drag and drop exported stills.
 
Some formats are stored anamorphically within FCP such as DVCPROHD and 16:9 standard definition video. So 720x480 has to be resized to 853x480 to look good as a square pixel still for example. 1920x1080 is what it is- so no resizing is needed. Really not a big deal to address takes about five seconds in any imaging program to resize.

Noah
 
David G. Smith said:
That is true, but the exported stills should still be the same aspect ratio, correct?
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You would think so, wouldn't you... IIRC when I used FCP 4 or 5 the stills would be the right aspect ratio regardless of the pixel aspect ratio of the source footage, but somewhere along the way that changed so FCP no longer compensates for media that uses unsquare pixels.


-Andrew
 
Here is what works the best for me.

I export a short portion of the sequence that has the frames I want.

Open it in QT Pro player, move to the frame I want, and do a command/option 4 screen grab of just the frame.'

It is a much better png than exporting from FCP and comes in the correct aspect ratio.
 
David S. said:
Here is what works the best for me.

I export a short portion of the sequence that has the frames I want.

Open it in QT Pro player, move to the frame I want, and do a command/option 4 screen grab of just the frame.'

It is a much better png than exporting from FCP and comes in the correct aspect ratio.
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I like that! That will be very handy to know. Thanks.
 
NoahK said:
Some formats are stored anamorphically within FCP such as DVCPROHD and 16:9 standard definition video. So 720x480 has to be resized to 853x480 to look good as a square pixel still for example. 1920x1080 is what it is- so no resizing is needed. Really not a big deal to address takes about five seconds in any imaging program to resize.

Noah
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Since you mentioned it I have gone to resizing in Photoshop, but "QT conversion" is the part that really seems unfamiliar. Could it be that I was dragging an image from QT player and resizing it? Maybe one of the updates in QTPro doesn't allow that anymore (all you can drag away is a QT clipping).

Anyway...resizing in Photoshop takes seconds, like you say...thanks guys. Nice to be back in the saddle using FCP again, went through a divorce, writing the script, auditions and now shooting (using pro actors wanting to keep their resumes current this time...such a treat), it's been since '07 that I've done any major editing, might be the best part, though shooting and putting my story to paper are a hoot too!
 
set in and out point, export as mov, go to quicktime pro, export as png sequence. it will be in the right aspect ratio.
 
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