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DV Rack Field Guide
emailing, posting on a web site or editing in a paint program) you will want to set
it for “PC 1:1” which creates a still at 640 x 480 with an aspect ratio of 1:1. To set
the pixel ratio for your grabs:
1.
Click the Field Monitor
Menu
button.
2.
Click the
Grab Pixel Ratio
setting and drag it to the desired setting.
3.
Click the
Menu
button again to close it.
Using the DV Grabber to Capture Still Images
1.
On the DV Grabber, click the
File
or
Clipboard
button to choose where
you’d like the image to be saved. You can choose File, Clipboard or both.
• If you select
Clipboard
, your file is copied to the Windows Clipboard. To
paste the image into another program or file: open the second application
and press
CTRL-V
on the keyboard or use the
Paste
command.
• If you selected
File
as your destination, your image is saved to a file. Grab
files are saved to a Grabbed Stills folder within your current project
folder.
2.
Click the
JPG
,
BMP
or
PNG
button to select a file format.
3.
The name of the grabbed still is displayed in the
Base File Name
field.
4.
If you wish to change the name, click in the field and edit the name.
5.
The name of the next grab file is displayed in the
Base File Name
field.
•
To grab a frame from a clip
, click or drag to the frame that you wish to
capture in the DVR, then click the
Grab
button.
•
To grab a frame from your camera
, with a live picture displayed in the
Field Monitor, click the
Grab
button when you see the shot you would
like to grab.
See Help for more information about grabbed stills.
NOTE:
If you save to the Clipboard and you shut down your computer before pasting the
still into another application, it will be lost. Also, because the clipboard can only hold one
object at a time, if you copy other items from DV Rack or any other application onto
the clipboard before pasting the still into an application, the still will be overwritten.