Need to copy a picture off a slide show

[Vesta]

I did a slide show thanks to ATR and others the first of the year. I lost the pictures that made up the slide show and need them for a written history of the church. Is it possible for me to import the show back into Premiere Elements 3 and copy some of the images and save them in a folder? I didn't want to mess up the slide show and wanted to seek advice first.
Thanks
Vesta

[ATR]

At this point I am assuming that you have your slideshow on a DVD disc in DVD-VIDEO format.

What I think is the quick and easiest way:

If you have Cyberlink PowerDVD, open that program to view your video on the computer. Then use the program's Capture Frame Icon. After you capture a frame by doing that, head over to Photoshop Elements Editor, open a new blank document, and then go Edit/Paste for that active layer. Voila, you still. You can edit and/or print from there and save in the desired format.

If you use the Premiere Elements route:
1. Place DVD in drive and use Premiere Elements Media Downloader to get your slideshow onto the Timeline. Then use the Export Frame icon for the capture (its should be near the Monitor) or just go to the File Menu/Export/Frame. You will end up with a saved copy on the hard drive at a location of your choice (as BMP) as well as a thumbnail in the Media Palette of Premiere Element (as BMP).

Let me know if any of that worked for you.

ATR

[Juergen D]

Vesta,
If all else fails, a Windows screen shot may work for you: Press Print Scrn and then open the Editor and go >File >New >Image from Clipboard.

Juergen

[Vesta]

Thanks so much for the help, it is so wonderful knowing that you are so willing to help. I will let you know how my progress.

Vesta

[Barb O]

ATR,

referencing back to your description for a frame grab using Premiere Elements 3 -

It has been awhile since I did one, but I think that I needed to specify Deinterlace in some option for the frame grab. I don't think that it was the default and that specifying it did improve the quality of the photo image.

Also I think that I saved my photo from the frame grab as a JPEG (which might be more generally useful because it can be used more places). However, saving as a TIFF with no compression might give even slightly better quality: then it could be converted to JPEG later if needed.

Barb

[ATR]

Vesta,

Some details of the Premiere Element route have been alluded to.

Here are some further details (I am using Premiere Elements 2):
When you go the File/Export/Frame route, you will get a dialog "Export Frame Dialog". That dialog has a "Settings" button. When you use it, you can select the file type for capture:
Under Settings/General
Default is Window Bitmap
From Drop Down List, the alternatives are
GIF
JPEG
Targa
TIFF

If the quality is not up to par, evaluate the options.

ATR

[Barb O]

ATR,

Did you see anything about Deinterlace ?

I can look on Premiere Elements 3 sometime in the afternoon Pacific Time but am not currently at a PC that has Premiere Elements.

[Vesta]

ATR, Juergen and Barb O

I had copied the movie from the DVD to my videos before I talked to you. I was able to get the movie into PE3 by Media downloader ( at this time I had the DVD in because I wasn't sure if the one I had copied the night before was okay) I chose the E/ drive which showed the DVD but the screen that came up was one about needing to activate a code which took me to an Adobe activation place. After I did as directed on the screen it finished copying the files from the DVD.

When I wanted to capture a frame I chose the freeze frame button on the right hand corner. I chose the settings for saving it ...chose where I wanted it saved and was able to open it in PSE5 as a tif.

Barb I never did get a box about Deinterlace.

Thanks so much for the help

Vesta

PS when I looked at the movie in PE3 it looked like the timeline for some of the frames where jammed together even though it played. another thing in the files folder ...one file marked VTS_01_1 which I chose ...the other one was VTS_01_2 not sure what that is will check it out and see it it was some portion of the movie but it looked like it was all in the first one.

thanks again

[ATR]

In my Premiere Elements 2, it would appear that "Deinterlace" is an option IF the quality of the frame capture is not great. But, as far as I can determine, "Deinterlace" in NOT a requirement when doing frame capture (generally speaking).

Whenever I have done this with or without "Deinterlace", I have not seen any difference in quality. But conditions can vary. So if the result does not look great, it would not hurt to try "Deinterlace". But, I have found that a poor quality starting material = poor quality frame capture even with "Deinterlace".

I will supply more info if necessary, but there is a good write up in the program's Help under "To freeze a video frame" as well as under "To export a from as a still image".

ATR

[ATR]

Vesta,

I just came across this chat at the Premiere Elements User to User Forum at Adobe.

"turning a frame into a printable photo"
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?14@@.3bc4a4ff/0

Are you OK with the VIDEO_TS? If not, please let me know.

ATR

[Vesta]

Vesta,

I just came across this chat at the Premiere Elements User to User Forum at Adobe.

"turning a frame into a printable photo"
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?14@@.3bc4a4ff/0

Are you OK with the VIDEO_TS? If not, please let me know.

ATR
ATR, I don't know much about any of this what i do know has come from watching a few videos available here about PE and the guidance i recieved from all of you. Since i don't know about Video_TS just happened that when I when to burn my slide show I had to copy to file. And I think this is what I ended up with when I burned it through my Sonic MY DVD Plus.
It does play on TV and computers not bad but I didn't know what I was doing as to photo sizes I would do it different in the beginning but it over with now.
If something is better I would like to learn about it.
thanks
Vesta

[Barb O]

thanks ATR

"If you click on Keyframe and Rendering you can also deinterlace the output."

That is the information for which I had been searching earlier today. My recollection is that choosing deinterlace did improve the quality of my frame grab saved to a photo file.

[ATR]

Vesta,

Just some information, probably more than you want to know, but you never know when it might come in handy....

1. When you create a DVD-VIDEO on a DVD disc, that DVD-VIDEO format is characterized by a specific file structure. The link below goes into that. See especially "Technical Info for DVD-VIDEO" (need to scroll down a bit) and the category "DVD File/Folder Structure".

http://www.videohelp.com/dvd

2. When you go the route "Burn to Folder" instead of "Burn to Disc", you create a saved folder which includes the VIDEO_TS. You take just this folder which contains the structure explained in the above link, and then you can burn it to a DVD disc with a software such as Nero or Record Now. The trick is to use the Burn Image (video files) category, not the Create Data Disc one. End result is your project in DVD-VIDEO format on a DVD disc ready for playback with your TV/DVD player if it supports the DVD-VIDEO format (which it no doubt does) and the type of DVD disc that you used (ex. DVD-R, DVD+R, etc). See player specs.

ATR