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Chapter 11, Using Matrox Vetura Capture and Vetura Playback
Taking a frame grab
Matrox Vetura Playback allows you to take a high-quality snapshot of a single
frame in your video, and save the still image to your desired file format.
1 Start Matrox Vetura Playback, and load an .mov file (see “Loading and
playing back a clip” on page 127).
2 Position the playhead on the scrubber bar so that it’s on the frame that you
want to grab.
3 Click the Frame Grab button ( ).
4 If Show options before saving is selected under Frame Grab in the
Matrox Vetura Playback preferences, the frame grab options will appear.
Set the frame grab options as specified in “Setting the Vetura Playback
preferences” on page 133, and then click
Save. If Show options before
saving
is not selected, the frame grab options won’t appear and the frame
grab file will be automatically saved with the options specified in the Matrox
Vetura Playback preferences.
¦NoteAny changes that you make to the frame grab options when taking a
frame grab will be applied as new preferences in the
Matrox Vetura Playback
Preferences
window.