Taking a snapshot

[Pepi]

Oh, I was almost writing a dummy questions about: how to get snapshot from title effect, in case you need to freeze the effect. But if you try enough hard you could found the solution

When you want to take a snapshot from the video you could go to menu:
Edit / Take a Snapshot...
and you have it.

With title you need to right click the title and select from there:
Effects / Convert this frame to PNG
and you have it.

But now the question for you: when I take a snapshot from video the format is BMP, but when I take a snapshot from title the format is PNG. Is there a certain reasons for having these two different formats, or is this just by accident?

[RobertOZ]

In Preferences you should find that BITMAP is selected for snapshot format.
Go to Preferences/Capture and change the Snapshot format to JPEG

[Pepi]

That is true Robert, but still that does not answer the question
After that change the formats are .jpg and .png. Is there a reason to keep them in different formats? I just wish to understand the product a bit better and for me this is a bit strange behavior.

[RobertOZ]

Not sure I understand, all my snapshots are JPG, no matter what the source is

[Pepi]

Ropert,
You need to prove it =)

Do you really say, that you have this menu but with JPG?

Remember, that is taken from title, but same goes if you take 3D text.

[RobertOZ]

I do not need to prove anything to you, however,
place Title in Title track, select Record/Capture, take Snapshot, image saved as .jpg

[Ken Berry]

But when you use the procedure suggested by Pepi, you do indeed get a PNG and I know of no way to change that, nor the reason why... Mind you, I never takes stills of titles so this was all new to me!

[BJC]

Well as they say you learn something new every day , in all the years I have been using Videostudio I never knew about the convert to PNG option

I don't think any one here will be able to tell you why the difference though Pepi , the only thing that occurs to me is that for many years printers and designers used to insist on .png images for printing from , maybe it is a legacy from those days , maybe the option was imported from another editor years ago where .png was the standard , buried in the past and not really a problem

but of course if it worries you that they are different then simply us "take a snaphot" on the title as well then all your images will be the same format