Taking a "picture" from video footage

Anybody know how I can take a frame from FCP and turn it into a picture for a thumbnail? Thanks!

You can click on freeze frame and it will make a still image in viewer. Sometimes the quality isn't very good but if it is just for thumbnail no worries. If you want a really good quality image, you have to export entire sequence uncompressed.mov and then open .mov in quicktime, make sure mouse is on image you want to to export as still frame and then click export for web. The still image will be in the folder it makes on your desktop.

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