Mister Hatt wrote:In vdub, ctrl+0 IIRC. It's in the video menu, copy current frame to clipboard. Alternatively you can set a range with the [] keys (or buttons) and then file->export it to PNG. No idea how to re-import it into Vegas but I figure avisynth does it fine.
thank you! the second process is generally more convenient for what i'm trying to do, by exporting a range as # image files, and just importing into photoshop from there rather than copy & pasting (i'll manually fill in the resolution)?
mirkosp wrote:Slimed: you accidentally removed the original question!

Can you add it back? Even if it's phrased in other ways it's fine, it's mostly so if people have your same question, they might find it already answered through the search feature.
In any case, you'll want to save the screenshot as png, and save as png again from photoshop. PNG is a lossless format, so it's going to be fine. Theoretically your source footage is YV12 and it's going to get converted to RGB during this process, but most if not all NLEs tend to work in RGB to begin with, so the colourspace conversion is generally unavoidable in either case. Saving png from vdub has been explained by Mister Hatt. To load them in vegas, you can just drag and drop the png, it will load them fine.
oh sorry, i wasn't thinking - i edited so nobody would get the questions confused, i'll add it back.
alright, so png from vdub and png from photoshop, i figured as much. although i was hoping there would be some method to saving the frames in photoshop as a video (i feel this is where quality issues will occur), i'll google around for an answer to that, if i can succeed with that, what file type would be most recommended? the reason i want to save as video opposed to image frames is because i plan to do a lot of work w/ motion/pans and that would be difficult with so many cuts, now that i think about it vegas might actually have a feature to combine clips (in this case, images) but i'm not completely sure on that, if that's the case then saving as a video won't be necessary.
Mister Hatt wrote:Where did screenshots come into it? All you need to do is copy the current frame to clipboard in vdub, then in PS hit File->New and it will be clever and read the resolution of what's in clipboard for you, so just hit OK. Then paste. Of course I am assuming you're running PS9 (CS2) or newer. Note that REGARDLESS OF THE RESOLUTION, the colourimetry conversion will be using the bt601 matrices. You may want to compare in avs or something a re-insert to make sure the colours are as expected.
i'm using photoshop CS5, so i do have that feature. rather than a single frame though, i was planning to edit several at a time, thus doing what you mentioned previously. to be honest i really don't have much prior knowledge of avisynth, other than how to actually make avs files of my footage (i plan to edit w/ fake avis for this particular project if that would influence anything you've said)? how would i compare in avs? you also mentioned "I figure avisynth does it fine" before and i wasn't really sure what you meant by that.
