Subtitles of the Movie

In this module, we'll look at creating a freeze frame out of any frame of footage that you've captured and are using in Final Cut. And what's great of this, of course, is that you don't have to a photographer on set to create your movie posters, or at least the start of your movie posters. You can just take the image that you've shot. Same thing with promotional materials for websites and other brochures that you create. All the stuff you need, at least to get started, you've already captured on your video camera. So let's say, for example, that you've found a shot in your footage that just completely captures the essence of Cyclo Cross in this example here and it's a guy carrying his bike up the side of the hill through mud who's in a bike race. Ostensibly in a bike race except he's got the bike in his hands. That's, why is he doing that? Again, that's the question you want people to ask themselves and so you're going to use that as your poster and you've got some nice empty space here. Maybe you can paint this out in Photoshop and put your title, you know, directed by, produced by and so on. So how do you make a free frame out of this? Well, it's quite easy to do. One of the things you can do before you even get started is that you can work with a copy of the footage itself so you can more readily modify it. So if you've got something in your browser, guy carrying bike, and that's the clip that you're working with here, you can duplicate it by going to the edit menu and clicking on duplicate. So now you've got guy carrying bike up here and you can even adjust the motion parameters. So let's zoom in on the image a little bit and go back to the video. Let's hit return here. Go back to video. So we zoomed in on this a little bit. Let's do, let's look at the wire frame and kind of get this right where we want to and that's a pretty compelling image that we might want to use for, again, the movie poster. So now that we've got this set, and I'll just go back to the image itself, I can make a still out of this by going to the modify menu and making a freeze frame. And now we've turned that little image into a ten-second, as you can see in the time code field up here, we've got a ten-second, you've got large handles by the way. But you can use that in your sequence itself, which would be fairly rare, but again, if you're putting together a documentary, you may have shot something that's going to be more interesting if we have a freeze frame of it and we zoom to it while we're doing some narration. Again, there's lots of uses for the creation of a still frame. But if we want to then bring this image, again, into the timeline, we can do that or just drag it into the browser, we can do that. And now we should have an icon that looks like that, which we can rename anything we want to that would help us identify this later on. So possible movie poster, we'll just call it mov poster and do that. So now I've got it. I can go back and edit my footage. I can use this. I can bring this up in the clip any time I want to and then use it in the timeline or what I can do if I want to create other things with this freeze frame that I created, is that I can give it a control click and I can export it to another file type. So what I recommend there is that you use QuickTime conversion and let's see what some of the options are. I don't have to have the QuickTime movie. I could use any of these others that I want to. I can export it as a still image. I can use a series of settings that are available from the drop-down menu or from my options, let's see what else I have to pick from. Could I export it for Photoshop? Absolutely I could. And then again, I have more options about, depending on the format that I choose, what then, what other options I can select for this thing. So best depth for Photoshop, millions of colors, millions of colors plus. We'll just choose best depth and click on ok and again, I could export it as a jpg, as PNG and that would optimize it of course for use on a website, but you see the different options that you have. So again, making a freeze frame, the actual button clicking is quite easy. I'm trying to show you a couple of practical applications, but just stop your footage somewhere, modify and make freeze frame. That's really all there is to it. Didn't have the option there because I already had that selected which was a freeze frame, but again, it doesn't really matter where you are, just as long as you're playing through a clip, modify or shift in. That's all you have to do.