Capturing a still image from video in Sony Vegas 8.0 Pro

[ruffryd]

1) can you do it?

2) how can you? haha

any help would be geatly appreciated. Thanks!

[guns1inger]

Drag the preview window out on it's own on the screen and up to full size, set it to full size best quality, then use the snapshot button to create a still.

[JohnnyMalaria]

There's a script that comes with Vegas that will export the active part of the time line as a sequence of bitmaps. Look in the scripting folder(s).

EDIT

Copy and paste this into Notepad and save it as SnapshotToClipboard.js in C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 8.0\Script Menu

// This script copies a snapshot of the current cursor position to the clipboard

import System.Windows.Forms;
import SonicFoundry.Vegas.Script;
import SonicFoundry.Vegas;

// Save original Settings
var origPreviewRenderQuality = Vegas.Project.Preview.RenderQuality;
var origPreviewFillSize = Vegas.Project.Preview.FullSize;
var origFieldOrder = Vegas.Project.Video.FieldOrder;
var origProjectDeinterlaceMethod = Vegas.Project.Video.DeinterlaceMethod;

try
{

// Setup Preview for image capture
Vegas.Project.Preview.RenderQuality = VideoRenderQuality.Best;
Vegas.Project.Preview.FullSize = true;

// Set the field order and deinterlace method
Vegas.Project.Video.FieldOrder = VideoFieldOrder.ProgressiveScan;
Vegas.Project.Video.DeinterlaceMethod = VideoDeinterlaceMethod.InterpolateFields;

// Copy Snapshot to Clipboard
Vegas.SaveSnapshot() == RenderStatus.Complete

}
catch (e)
{
MessageBox.Show(e);
}

// Restore Previous Settings
Vegas.Project.Preview.RenderQuality = origPreviewRenderQuality;
Vegas.Project.Preview.FullSize = origPreviewFillSize;
Vegas.Project.Video.FieldOrder = origFieldOrder;
Vegas.Project.Video.DeinterlaceMethod = origProjectDeinterlaceMethod;