A CS4 Question at DVinfo.net

Terry Wall · November 29th, 2012, 09:15 PM

Hi, gang! Because I do video as a sideline, I haven't been able to afford the upgrades to CS5 and/or 6, but I have a question about how to do screen grabs of my video footage? I want to pull grabs in order to create still images to use as headers for various web projects (site, blog, banners, etc). The more recent versions have a camera icon on the source monitor, making this easy, but how is this done in CS4? I scanned the Adobe sites and they're not very helpful. Once you're more than 2 versions old, they don't care about you any more.

Thanks for the assist!

~TRW

Battle Vaughan · November 29th, 2012, 11:03 PM

For unknown reasons, Adobe made it hard in CS4 to do a simple task. Do file>export>media and select either tiff or windows bitmap (or GIF or Targa, big whoop) when AME opens. Yeah, I know, no jpeg. The frame that should show up in the Adobe Media Encoder preview window should be the same one that your timeline indicator is on. You can scrub the timeline indicator in AME to fine-tune your choice. CS6 has a simple framegrab icon, the way it ought to be.

Ian Firth · November 30th, 2012, 04:58 PM

and for bitmap to jpeg, download GIMP (free) and do a "save as"

Cheers, Ian

November 29th, 2012, 09:15 PM	#1
Terry Wall Regular Crew Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Orange County, CA Posts: 164	A CS4 Question Hi, gang! Because I do video as a sideline, I haven't been able to afford the upgrades to CS5 and/or 6, but I have a question about how to do screen grabs of my video footage? I want to pull grabs in order to create still images to use as headers for various web projects (site, blog, banners, etc). The more recent versions have a camera icon on the source monitor, making this easy, but how is this done in CS4? I scanned the Adobe sites and they're not very helpful. Once you're more than 2 versions old, they don't care about you any more. Thanks for the assist! ~TRW __________________ Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It's ALL small stuff!

November 29th, 2012, 11:03 PM	#2
Battle Vaughan Trustee Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Miami, FL USA Posts: 1,505	Re: A CS4 Question For unknown reasons, Adobe made it hard in CS4 to do a simple task. Do file>export>media and select either tiff or windows bitmap (or GIF or Targa, big whoop) when AME opens. Yeah, I know, no jpeg. The frame that should show up in the Adobe Media Encoder preview window should be the same one that your timeline indicator is on. You can scrub the timeline indicator in AME to fine-tune your choice. CS6 has a simple framegrab icon, the way it ought to be.

November 30th, 2012, 04:58 PM	#3
Ian Firth Regular Crew Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Ottawa, Ontario Posts: 31	Re: A CS4 Question and for bitmap to jpeg, download GIMP (free) and do a "save as" Cheers, Ian