Hi Everyone, bit of an odd one for you...

I am adding a timer to my videos, which is an avi file. I need to have the timer hold on 0:00:00 for a while before it starts. Then I need it to freeze on the final time.

Normally I take a snapshot of the entire screen (full res version of the preview window). Then I have to mess around with a mask transparency so things around it can still be seen moving when the clock starts and stops.

I've just clicked the snapshot button but this time it created a BMP of the timer at 0:00:00, keeping the size to the original video dimensions, which is fantastic. Problem is I can't get PowerDirector to do a snapshot like this again. It's now doing the entire screen like normal.

If you look at the image...


> the file I've circled in red is a snapshot of just the avi - HOW DO I DO THIS AGAIN???
> the file I've circled in blue is a snapshot of the entire preview windows - this is what PD normally does
> the file I've circled in black is a snapshot of the entire preview window when hiding all track except the timer

I would love to take snapshots of a particular frame within a video and overlay that instead of messing around with masks. Any ideas how I did this and how I do it again?

Thanks

Nick