Freeze frame export?

When you have made a freeze frame and dropped it into your timeline is there any way of exporting it to use in Photoshop or for the front of a DVD?
Cheers,
Mac

Park the playhead over the freeze frame and choose export/QT Conversion/movie to still.
Remember, it will be only 72 dpi and needs to be uprezzed in Photoshop or PhotoZoomPro.
You open it in PhotoZoomPro and change the image resolution to like 300dpi. The application processes the image. You do a save as.

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