Skew and align a still frame

I have a video clip of a box moving from one side of the screen to the other.
I want to change one side of the box with a picture, .JPG or whatevs.
The picture needs to be both skewed and tracked to the side of the box.
So. I tried the Corner Pin-effect and it works absolutely perfect when I align the crosshairs in the first keyframe, but the next keyframe all those arrows just mess everything up.
What to do?

I'm sure AE is a better workflow, but since I don't know it as well, my aim would be to utilize the 3D capabilities of PS. Design my cube there and use the skew option under "Edit-Transform" to fit your picture to one side of your cube. Then export your finished product and pull it into PrPro. Animate your tumble as you want.

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How to create and export a still frame from a movie in iMovie 09

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Are you working in iMovie and realize that certain frames in the movie would be perfect as photographs? Here is how to extract them...
*To get a still frame from an Event*, right-click on the frame and select "Add Still Frame to Project". The still will be added to the end of the current project. Right click on the still frame in the project and select "Reveal in Finder". You will see a jpeg file that is highlighted. Drag this jpeg file in the finder to the iPhoto icon on your dock.
*If you want a still from a project*, rather than an event, the process is similar, except you right-click on the frame and select "Add Freeze Frame", and it adds the freeze frame at the end of the clip rather than at the end of the project. Right-click/reveal in Finder, drag JPEG to iPhoto icon in dock.
*If you are not using iPhoto*, and just want to save to your desktop, click Reveal in Finder as above, then COPY, then PASTE to desktop.
Hint: If you do not want to clutter up your iMovie Project with stills at the end that you would have to go back and delete, then create a separate iMovie Project just for your stills, and follow the instructions for capturing stills from an Event.
Note: If you do not have a right mouse button, then control-click will work instead of right-click.
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First, click iMovie/About and see which version you have.
Versoon 9.0.2 would be iMovie 11.
Follow the instructions [in this post|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=13065602#13065602]
If you have Version 8.0.6, that is iMovie 09 and you should see the Reveal In Finder option.

Re: How to create and export a still frame from a movie in iMovie 09

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First, click iMovie/About and see which version you have.
Versoon 9.0.2 would be iMovie 11.
Follow the instructions [in this post|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=13065602#13065602]
If you have Version 8.0.6, that is iMovie 09 and you should see the Reveal In Finder option.

Still Frames Disappear in Project Frame

Working with imovie 08, at work, I capture videos from hdv camera. I have to select short clips of work video and create projects from the clips. Then I use the "add still frame to project", and usually the still frames stay in the project frame while I'm doing this. I then use finder to locate them once I am finished. The stills are now disappearing from the project frame and are no where to be found. I had done this procedure many times (30+) with no problem, now I can't find them anywhere. help!

So what I am realizing is that all of my sequences have been created with incorrect settings, thus greatly downgrading the film quality. I wish I had picked up in this earlier rather than the last bit of my production. Because now the 25 minutes of sequences, and nested sequences are all basically incorrect. I figured that the poor display was related to Premieres program monitor, and that after rendering, it would display more clearly. But that is just impossible, when placing uncompressed progressive footage 1366X768, square pixels and 30fps into sequences that are 720X480, 29.97, and a non-square pixel aspect ratio...
So I'm wondering, is there any way to change the sequence settings or place all of the edited footage in new, matching sequences without essentially re-editing the whole film?
Any helpful words are appreciated.

Still frames in project - Possible to Save as individual photos?

Hello ...
I have taken a number of still frames from my video event and made a picture project ...
However when I export it .. it ends up as a video file ...
Is there a way of saving single pictures into iPhoto or whatever ... so that I can use these single pictures in another application ...
Thanks ... for any info ...

Is there a way of saving single pictures into iPhoto or whatever
1) Select frame in Event window.
2) Use "Add Still Frame to Project" option to move the selected Event frame to your Project window.
3) Select the "Still Frame" in the Project window.
4) Use the "Reveal in Finder" option to select the stored JPEG image.
5) Image file can then be copied or you can double-click to open it in Preview which will allow you to save a copy to your preferred storage location and, if you wish, change its compression format at the same time.
6) Now return to iMovie and if the "Still Frame" is not needed in your Project window, simply delete it.

Help how do you save a still frame of video as a photo?

Help how do you save a still frame of video as a photo? Thanks

A still frame from an Event:
Put cursor at the frame you want, then right click (or command click) and select "Add Still Frame to Project".
The still frame will be added at the end of the Project.
A still frame from a Project:
Put cursor at the frame you want then right-click (or control-click) and select "Add Freeze Frame". The Freeze frame will be added after the clip.
In both cases:
Select the still frame (so the yellow band is around it).
Right-click (or control-click) and select "Reveal in Finder".
You will see a JPG file highlighted in the finder.
Drag this file and drop it on your iPhoto icon in the Dock.

Optical Flow produces only a still frame

Weird bug; hoping there's a workaround...
When I choose a clip and select Video Quality >> Optical Flow, it analyzes it and renders a still frame for the duration of the clip. (The thumbnail indicates shows motion throughout the clip, but indeed it's just a single frame.)
Any help is much appreciated.

As far as I can tell, this may only occur when the clip is set to a reverse direction (-100% speed, for example).

Using still frame other than in iMovie

I have a still frame I grabbed from a movie clip. How do I move it and or save it so that I can use it in other applications, i.e., to send as an attachment with email?

Are you using imovie 08? This advice only applies for iMovie 08
If so, position your cursor at the point in your video that you would like to capture. Then right-click and select add still frame to project. You should see this still frame in your project, probably at the end. (You may want to start a new project so you don't clutter up an existing project.
Now right-click on the still frame in the project. Select revel in finder. This will bring up a finder window with the jpeg file highlighted. That is the one you want.

Grabbing still frames (JPG) from a video?

If I find a frame of video in my project that I'd like to convert to a .jpg file, is there anyway to make that happen? Sometimes I stumble across a frame that would make a great photo to add to my iPhoto collection.
I can do this in Final Cut Express and the old iMovie HD but I can't figure out that process in iMovie '09.
Thanks,
MB!

Good news, it's easy. Put the cursor on the frame in the event or project, right-click (command-click) and choose "add still frame (to project)" or something similar (I've got it in spanish). Then right-click on the added still and choose reveal in finder. There's your jpeg file (seems to be in "stills" folder within the iMovie project).

Can no longer add still frame

In iMovie 09 I previously was able to select a movie clip and make a photo of it to put into the movie. Af first, it allowed me to do so by right clicking and selecting Add Still Frame to Project. Then, it recently switched to holding Control and clicking to bring up that option. I did that just yesterday! Now that option no longer appears. Why take this away? Does anyone know how to do this now?

In the Event, it is still called Add Still Frame to Project and it adds it the end.
In the Project, it is now called Add Freeze Frame, and it adds at the end of the current clip. This is useful if you have a clip that you want to freeze on the last frame and apply a Ken Burns Effect to extent the shot.

Saving Still Frames To Desktop

How can I save a still frame in iMovie 09 to my desktop (like in older versions) so I can edit same in Photoshop?

To get a frame from an Event, right-click on the frame and select "Add Still Frame to Project". The still will be added to the end of the project. Right click on the still frame in the project and select "Reveal in Finder". Drag this jpeg file in the finder to the iPhoto icon on your dock.
If you want a still from a project, rather than an event, the process is similar, except you right-click on the frame and select "Add Freeze Frame", and it adds the freeze frame at the end of the clip rather than at the end of the project. Right-click/reveal in Finder, drag JPEG to iPhoto icon in dock.
If you are not using iPhoto, and just want to save to your desktop, click Reveal in Finder as above, then COPY, then PASTE to desktop.

Use a still frame elsewhere

I want to take a still frame from an iMovie project and use it in another, non-iMovie, project. I find the frame I want in the event browser, right click it, and select Add Still Frame to Project. My selected still appears at the end of the video on the story board. Now what? I cannot drag it to a non-iMovie folder and cannot copy/paste it to the non-iMovie folder. Right clicking the still does not present Reveal in Finder as suggested in the book I bought. Thank you

See my post in the iMovie 11 discussions here.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3231

Drag and drop still frames

I want to export a number of still frames from a movie for insertion into a report made using Pages
At present I use imovie 6 HD and I can command F to save the frame to a folder of choice and later command drag and drop to insert the saved still frame within the confines of a table cell. I can also use quicktime 7 pro and command E to export as a picture
I got to thinking why can't I just drag and drop the frame I am viewing straight from the open quicktime window into the table cell in Pages. I just want the still frame not the whole movie.
Any work arounds?
Thanks in anticipation

Actually it is not such a bad idea as I email a pdf version to my customers anyway. Using PDF shrink I got a 66 meg pages file with 6 'stills' down to 106kb. It initially went down to 1meg just using export from Pages
The trouble is that the large size of the pages document makes it a bit slow to respond if lots of 'stills' are taken from a large movie file.
Shame there is not a keyboard combination to do what I wanted in the first place using drag n drop
I shouldn't complain though. I understand that the current imovie still can't export still frames at all.
Thanks again for your interest

I am having issues with adjusting the duration of time for each still frame and transition in imovie 11. Each time that I adjust these times, the app does not accept the change, and automatically enters its own time. Am I doing something wrong?

I am having issues with adjusting the duration of time for each still frame and transition in imovie 11. Each time that I adjust these times, the application does not accept the change, and instead automatically enters its own time. Is there a work around this? Or am I doing something wrong? Please Help!
Thank you,
lagrl

Have you tried turning off automatic transitions ? Choose file - project properties and follow the dialogue box to change duration with a slider. iMovie also doesn't allow a transition to be more than 50% duration of the clip its attached to. In other words if the clip is 4 seconds the transition cannot be more than 2 seconds and remember that relates to the first clip as the following clip (right side) is pulled back to overlay it.
Does this help. Perhaps you already know this ?

Cross dissolve and still frame problem

Sorry for reposting this issue but I am still have problems. In fact, it is extremely frustrating and I don't know why.
I am using FCP X 10.0.8 and when I try to add cross dissolves to some still frames it will not allow me.
I get the following error msg.
The Japanese error msg says that there is insufficient media length outside the clip edge to make a transition. And it asks whether I want to make a ripple trim to the media in order to make the transition. It says that if I decide to do so then the overall project duration will be shortened. However, even if I decide to do the later it will not let me make the cross dessolve.
As you can see there should be enough length outside the clip edge to allow this. Or am I misleading myself in this view?
According to me - and I know that I am a sheer novice at this, there should be enough media length to allow the transition. This is happening in not only cross dissolves but any other dissolve which I attempt to add. The problem seems to be intermittent or varies. If I replace the still frame then sometimes it will allow the transition but effects subsequent frames. Either putting in "flash" or bogus frames - even just a black frame. These I can only detect when I expand the timeline to the very limit. And on some occassions there is nothing whatsoever that seems to be blocking the adding of the cross dissolve. This will be the 3rd time which I have had to restart the project and it is getting rather annoying, not to say that I am approaching the time limit which is adding even more pressure.
Can you suggest what the problem is and how I should go about rectifying it please? Is anybody else having the same issue?
Thanking you,
Mitaka27
Tokyo

This is what I see but it doesn't quite make sense to me. One, I don't know why there should be two AUDIO01 files showing. The still frame which I am trying to add the crossover to is FRTOTSUKA. It will allow me to add to the end but not to the start. The same is happening with a couple of other frames. If I add one to the start it won't allow me to add it to the end.
Hope I am making sense.
Thanking you,
Mitaka27

Skew and align a still frame

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