Taking stills is easy: move the scrubber so that you see the frame you want to capture, then click on the "camera" icon below the preview window.
Place the snapshot onto one of the video tracks, select it, and then click on the "crop the selected" button above the timeline. Where the crop window lists aspect ratio choises (at the left), select either free-form or custom. I recommend custom, so that you can make your images exactly 1/3 of the width of a frame. Free-form would be a matter of trial and error.
Repeat with the other two snapshots, putting each on a separate video track.
You'll find that they are all centered, which is not what you want; but if you select a clip you can move it back and forth in the preview window.
Now, to get them to pop up in sequence is easy. For the sake of argument, lets assume you want the sequence to take 15 seconds.
Select the first image and set its duration to 15 seconds, either by dragging the end of it or by right-clicking to bring up the editing menu.Slide the second image so that it begins 5 seconds after the first, and set its duration to 10seconds.Slide the third image so that it begins 10 seconds after the first, and set its duration to 5 seconds.
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Jerry Schwartz