How To Open A File?

abrogard wrote on 2/15/2019, 5:00 PM

I have an avi file from a camera. I just want to look at it and cut a couple of frames out and I thought Magix might be the way to go.

But incredibly I can't find a way to open the file. I've been peering at microscopic white print on a black background all about searching and importing and I've given up on selecting the file and have followed intructions to select the whole folder instead - but it fails even to provide that ! Instead I get a couple of hundred entries from I don't know where in my computer and not one of them the camera .avi files.

How can this possibly be? Even if they wrote it without this elementary function wouldn't they later add a message popping up when you hover over 'import' or something?

Leave me speechless.

Anyway. How to get it in there?

and while I'm at it I might as well ask this, too: I want to find one frame with a good pic of a certain bird in it. It'll be tiny. So then I want to blow it up. Can blow up the video stream itself - like look at the video and have it magnified so's I can find this thing?

 

 

 

Comments

johnebaker wrote on 2/16/2019, 4:38 AM

@abrogard

Hi

In order for us to help you we need a lot more information then you have given.

Please read this topic and then come back with the information about your computer, the program full name and version number, MediaInfo analysis of the AVI clip, the camera make/model and how you are trying to import the clip to the timeline.

. . . . I want to find one frame with a good pic of a certain bird in it. It'll be tiny. So then I want to blow it up. Can blow up the video stream itself . . . .

Depending on the resolution of the video clip you may find that although you can see the tiny bird in the clip when you blow it up it will be very pixellated eg

Original shot - 3840 x 2160 pixels (4K video)

Left hand bird blown up to 640 x 360 pixels

HTH

John EB

 

VPX 16, Movie Studio 2025, and earlier versions 2015 and 2016, Music Maker Premium 2024.

PC - running Windows 11 23H2 Professional on Intel i7-8700K 3.2 GHz, 16GB RAM, RTX 2060 6GB 192-bit GDDR6, 1 x 1Tb Sabrent NVME SSD (OS and programs), 2 x 4TB (Data) internal HDD + 1TB internal SSD (Work disc), + 6 ext backup HDDs.

Laptop - Lenovo Legion 5i Phantom - running Windows 11 24H2 on Intel Core i7-10750H, 16GB DDR4-SDRAM, 512GB SSD, 43.9 cm screen Full HD 1920 x 1080, Intel UHD 630 iGPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB GDDR6)

Sony FDR-AX53e Video camera, DJI Osmo Action 3 and Sony HDR-AS30V Sports cams.

abrogard wrote on 2/16/2019, 4:19 PM

I've got it in the timeline now. Figured that out.

Now I just want to export one frame to run through something like gimp maybe.

Can't quite see how that is done.

I can bracket a section down to as small as a frame I think it probably is.

But then I can't

1. paste it into a new timeline. It always goes onto the end of the existing line. i.e. on the end of video it was copied out of.

2. export it to my hdd.

 

If you want all that information I've created a signature and I have Windows 10 Pro 1803.

And here's the media info:.

General
Complete name                            : E:\DCIMA520\258CANON\MVI_5882.AVI
Format                                   : AVI
Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave
File size                                : 1.40 MiB
Duration                                 : 7 s 0 ms
Overall bit rate                         : 1 683 kb/s
Mastered date                            : 2019-02-15 12:06:40
Writing application                      : CanonMVI01

Video
ID                                       : 0
Format                                   : JPEG
Codec ID                                 : MJPG
Duration                                 : 7 s 0 ms
Bit rate                                 : 1 589 kb/s
Width                                    : 320 pixels
Height                                   : 240 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 4:3
Frame rate                               : 15.000 FPS
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:2
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 1.379

 

But really I just want to know what keys to hit to select and export one frame.

:)

p.s. and yes, it's going to be too pixellated to be of any use for any more than : 'look at that, that was a seagull surfing.' But until I can get back to the beach with a better camera/technique that's going to have to do.

 

 

emmrecs wrote on 2/17/2019, 6:59 AM

@abrogard

With the frame you wish to export selected and visible in the Program window, go to File>Export movie>Single frame as JPEG, select where on your computer you want the image to be saved and click on OK. Done!

Then you will be able to open that image from its saved location in any editor etc. of your choice.

HTH

Jeff

Win 11 Pro 64 bit, Intel i7 14700, 32 GB RAM, NVidia RTX 4060 and Intel UHD770 Graphics, Audient EVO 16 audio interface, VPX, MEP, Music Maker, Vegas Pro, PhotoStory Deluxe, Xara 3D Maker 7, Samplitude Pro X7 Suite, Reaper, Adobe Audition CC, 2 x Canon HG10 cameras, 1 x Canon EOS 600D, Akaso EK7000 Pro Action Cam