Saving a frame to a jpeg file

I saw some previous questions with no solution on this topic and wonder if anyone has found the method? iMovie help is silent on this topic. I ended up using iMovie HD, but surely there is a method for the new program?

There's an application on your Mac called Grab (Applications>Utilities). You can use this to grab stills from your video. I prefer to use a short-cut method though - hold down together the Command>Shift>4 keys and the cursor changes to a cross-hair. Drag from one corner diagonally to the other - when the mouse button is released a still (.png format)will be saved to your Desktop.
It's best to do this in Full-screen mode. It's also easier if you set the full-screen preference to "Actual Size" rather than "Entire Screen" unless you want a really high resolution picture. In iMovie's menu go to iMovie>Preferences and adjust the setting for "Full-screen playback" there.
I get excellent results using this process - as good as I was getting (or better) than jpegs generated from iMovie '09. I fine tune the stills in iPhoto.
John

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hi there,
i'm rather new to indesign and i can't get this thing to work:
whenever i place a jpeg image (or for that matter, any other image format) into an indesign document and later move
the jpeg file to a different location on my harddrive and then reopen the indesign file, the image is all pixeled. it seems like the image
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Grant's answers are correct. You SHOULD use linked images and you should update them on the Links panel.
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I'm trying to capture a graph on the front panel into an .html file using the case structure in the attached .vi. The case structure works but I keep getting a jpeg file in the form of CT0327xxxxxxx.jpeg saved in the C:\vibration data directory each time a capture is performed. How do I keep this image from either being generated or saved? Thanks in advance.
Message Edited by GSO on 09-12-2007 10:33 AM

Sorry. Here it is.
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few weeks now and i'm suddenly realizing that there seems to be no
easy way to save BitmapData as a JPEG file. I have found flash
examples that call php scripts in order to save jpegs, but is this
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