Dive Into Your Imagination

There are times when I capture a great image and would like to either print it or post it online but its from a video camera! What do I do? Well Final Cut has a way to get a still out and give it life somewhere else outside of your timeline. After I capture the image I take it into Photoshop and bring out many of the values and color, this can also be done in Final Cut before I export it ,but Photoshop just has easier controls that I am used to.

To capture a still for your movie, the first thing you will need to do is place the playhead to the frame you want to capture. Pay attention to things like focus and motion blur when selecting your image, sometimes, there is a better still 1 or 2 frames around it. I've selected this image of MatieB with his eye brows raised. The next thing to do is to export the still. Go FILE>EXPORT>>USING QUICKTIME CONVERSION. In the pop-up window, select STILL IMAGE from the FORMAT drop down. The hit the OPTIONS...button. In the next window, choose TIFF, then click the next OPTIONS button. Here, set compression to NONE and save away!

MatieB in all his glory! I had to do a few tricks in Photoshop to bring out the colors.

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