From documentaries to wedding videos, as an editor, you can just about count on having to incorporate still images into your Final Cut Pro project at one time or another. But the default duration when importing a still image is 10 seconds, and you may want the image to play for a longer or shorter duration. There are several ways to manipulate the length of a still image:
Remember, that changing the default duration will only affect images you import after you've changed the setting; not images you've imported before you made the change.
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- To change the default duration, go to the Final Cut Pro menu > User Preferences and click the Editing Tab
- Type in a new value in the Still/Freeze Duration field
Remember, that changing the default duration will only affect images you import after you've changed the setting; not images you've imported before you made the change.Continue reading for more ways to change the duration of your still images...
Continue reading Setting Duration for Still Images In Final Cut Pro.
If you have a particular frame or image in your Final Cut Pro video that you'd like to make into a still image or jpeg, it's a relatively simple process. Maybe you want to use the still image as a promotional item, or as a background picture for your DVD menu, or maybe you need to email it to someone for approval, or use on a website, or you just really like the picture to put into a frame; whatever the use you have for it, it's super easy to do.
- In the Timeline, park your playhead over the frame where you want to make a still image from.
- Go to the File Menu and choose Export > Using QuickTime Conversion
Continue reading Exporting a Still Image JPEG from Final Cut Pro.
Poster frames in Final Cut Pro are basically the pictures that represent a clip in icon view in the Browser. When you look at clips in the Browser in Large Icon View or when you show the Thumbnail Column in List View, the icon or thumbnail picture you see reflects the first frame of the clip in the Browser, or the In Point for that clip. I find using Poster Frames advantageous when I want to identify a clip visually in the Browser by using a specific image. Sometimes the Poster Frame of the clips are not accurate depictions of the action that occurs within the clip. Any frame of a clip can be used as it's Poster Frame, and you can set or change those Poster Frames in the Browser or in the Viewer.
To set the Poster Frame of a clip in the Viewer:
To set the Poster Frame in the Browser in Large Icon View:
Now your Poster Frames are set, and you have a much easier time defining what is in each of your clips!
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To set the Poster Frame of a clip in the Viewer:
- Double-click on a clip in the Browser in order to open it up in the Viewer
- In the Viewer, navigate to the frame you want to use as the Poster Frame for that clip
- Go to Mark > Set Poster Frame, or you can use the keyboard shortcut CTRL+P
To set the Poster Frame in the Browser in Large Icon View:- Scrub through a clip until you get to the frame you want, press and hold down the CTRL key, then release the mouse button
Now your Poster Frames are set, and you have a much easier time defining what is in each of your clips!Check out our upcoming class schedule for Final Cut Pro, and learn how to be a more efficient editor!
