Creating PICTURES from STILL IMAGES

I have been playing around and looking for someway to create a still picture from your movie. I have been able to create still images, but is it at all possible to just take a simple picture from one of the frames?
I am interested in using this for posting and emailing them. I also would love to be able to use the Ken Burns effect on a still image in my movie.
Does anyone know if this is possible?

Thanks SD,
I am quite aware of those two methods. My question is if it possible to to the KB Effect on one of your still images.
Forexample, you are showing a video and all the sudden it pauses and zooms in on the paused frame.
My other question is if it is possible to make a still frame and then just save it as a photo. Lets say I wanted to make a movie poster for my movie. Can I use one of the frames as a simple jpeg?

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Or am I living in a dreamland and I need to go back and render every single frame?
You are. There is no effect that could automatically synthesize those missing frames even halfway realistically. Timewarp and Twixtor are only gonna make things look like a smear even with a lot of tweaking. By the time you have tweaked their settings and done all your masking and otehr corrections, your 3D render with all frames will be finished just as well and offer better quality.
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jorgeavanza
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or
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Hey Thrill seekers. In advance thank you for your kindness to a premier newbie.
I'm working on a personal project for my local Habitat for Humanity Chapter. I'm capturing single images a 5 second intervals and want to create a time lapse film of the build. I'm also taking stills and putting them over the background created by the time lapse. Each week I learn a little more, and see more possibilities.
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What I'd LOVE to do would be to just import higher rez stills, (and I know I can tell premier to make the stills 1 frame by default) but then be able to treat the entire group of 4,500 or so frames as a sinlge entity so I could zoom in/out and pan on the time lapse image. As it is now, I don't know how to do so and am locked into a single size and crop on the "video" clips.
I realize this is a premier pro forum and I just admitted to using elements. But if an upgrade would give me the capability I'd do so. I've got the trial version of pro, but haven't found out how to do it there either.
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There are a couple considerations:
1.) PrPro can only take images up to ~4000 pixels on the largest dimension. One can do a lot of panning on zoomed out images, far smaller than that. High-rez images will only bog things down. I would plan on just how many extra pixels you need and set the larger ones to that. One caveat: if you want to Import as a Numbered Sequence, you will need to be aware of the numbering, and keep that consistent.
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Make sure that each still-image file name contains an equal number of digits at the end and has the correct file extension—for example, file000.bmp, file001.bmp, and so forth.
Choose File > Import.
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Note: Changing the default duration of still images in the Preferences dialog box does not affect the duration of numbered stills imported into a video clip. Each still becomes one frame when imported in this way.
3.) If you are Importing as a Numbered Sequence, there might not be much time to Pan & Zoom. Plan that carefully.
4.) I keep my stills in .PSD format, and Import that. Now, I shoot RAW, and process to .PSD in PS, so it's an easy workflow to maintain.
5.) You are talking about a lot of stills. I have done Projects with just over 2000 .PSD's, but most were sized to my Project's Frame Size, with only some being larger to allow for the Panning on a Zoomed out image. I have a pretty stout workstation, and have had no issues, but you ARE talking an HD Project (many more pixels, than my SD Projects) and many more still images.
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Good luck, and there will probably be other thoughts that pop into my mind. You might also want to post to the PrE forum, and link back to this post too, so people can follow along, and not end up posting the same comments in two places.
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[Edit] Forgot to add that the Sequences feature, alone, would be a good reason to go with PrPro, in lieu of PrE for a Project of this size. You can use those like "mini-Projects" within a "master Project." I most often use them like others do "Chapters."
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Hello,
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Change this line
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> I want to do a SubVI that displays an image in a picture control.
>
> The input is:
>
> an image structure (as a cluster)
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> The output is:
>
> a picture control (with the image to display)
>
> I'm using the ImageToArray.vi, and I can display a flatten or an
unflatten
> pixmap. The problem is that I need the palette of the Image, and I don´t
> know how to look for it.
>
> Is it possible to get the palette from a image structure?
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