How can I cut single frames from videos?
Cutting single frames
Robert-Pirtle
wrote on 1/26/2019, 5:06 PM
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browj2
wrote on 1/26/2019, 6:54 PM
Hi,
If you want just 1 or 2 frames, zoom in to frame level and trim out the frame or frames that you want. I am presuming that you know how to cut/trim. If not, then watch my tutorials on basic editing.
johnebaker
wrote on 1/27/2019, 5:40 AM
Hi
To add to John CB's comment, if the frames you want to remove are generated in the camera - some cameras have a black frame(s) at the start or end of a clip - then Movie Edit pro can do this automatically for you on import - see the program settings below
HTH
John EB
Robert-Pirtle
wrote on 2/2/2019, 10:48 AM
I took the advice of Browj2 and did some really efficient and good editing, but them grouped the 8 or 9 individual objects and saved with a new name. When I pulled it up next to continue, I could zoom the video, but not spread out the object into single frames. What do I do now?
browj2
wrote on 2/2/2019, 11:30 AM
Hi Robert,
I'm not sure what you are doing.
For clarity, zooming on the timeline is not the same as zooming an image or video. To see individual frames, you zoom on the timeline using the popdown at the right of the scrollbar at the bottom of the Project Window (the timeline). Alt+1 will zoom in to frame level, but you will see more than 1 frame on the timeline. You go from one frame to the other using the left and right arrow keys on your keyboard.
When you say that you grouped 8 or 9 individual objects, what do you mean by "saved with a new name?"
What are you doing with individual frames or images cut from a video clip? If your goal is to show the individual frame for a few seconds, then you have to right-click on the video clip with the playback marker on the frame that you want, and select "Insert still image at the playback marker." This creates a still image, the length of an image as defined in the Program settings (7 seconds by default). You can extend this image or shorten it and it remains a still image.
Contrast the above with the following. If you cut on each side of a frame of a video, this is an individual frame of the video. Delete the video on each side of the cut frame. Now, if you drag out either end you get the video, not the still image.
So, what exactly are you trying to do?
John CB