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I believe we are trying to maintain resolution of the source video for a snapshot, not upscale, so using a 1920x1080 video as source provides little guidance other than providing PD's upscale capability.
With 8k (7680x4320) source video, High, HD and Full display resolutions all yield a 1920x1080 resolution snapshot.
Ultra display, a 3840x2160 snapshot.
The only way to maintain source video resolution of 8k is with a snapshot in the media library which yielded 7680x4320 resolution pic.
As I had mentioned initially, if you've done something to the video in the timeline, use Produce Range at desired source resolution and take snapshot in the Media Library to guaranty source quality.
Jeff
Yeah - the resolution is fine on Free Frame - it's a 4k image (jpg or png) - it just seems that PowerDirector samples it from the preview window which it will be rendering at a low quality
Just seems weird that it doiesn't use the original video to sample from - I really like PowerDirector, but am considering switching to an alterantive just for this one feature, I am making coding tutorials so I want to zoom into particular windows or code segments and then hold them while I explain the bit of code being focused.
Last project that was 40 FF in a 10 min video - and an additional 2hrs work ![]()
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There are quicker methods. First try using PNG instead of JPG for the timeline snapshot. You may also need to switch to the UHD preview setting to get the highest quality PNG, but by all means drop back to a lower quality when you're doing any other kinds of edits if you want to save your hair.
If PNG snapshots don't work, use the Range Select tool and then us Produce Range to only produce a second or 2 of the video, then get your snapshot from that.
Generally speaking I'd stay far away from the Render Preview tool as that typically causes problems with later editing, plus it takes much more time to do that than to simply Range Produce the sections you need.
The Produce range may be a quicker way to amnually fix it - thanks for that suggestion
But it sort of leaves the Freeze Frame function as entirely useless unless - the ability to right click, Edit Video, Freeze Frame means a freeze takes manbe 20 seconds and can be done as I match voice to clips to titles etc
Manually adding the same snapshots after took me more time than the entire time I spent in PowerDirector to create the original video
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So far, the only way to really enforce getting same quality pic resolution as video is to take the snapshot from the video clip in the Media Library, not the timeline. The increased display resolution works sometimes, but not always. If the snapshot you want has other nonnative video features, one has to use the Produce Range feature to produce to your desired resolution and then take a snapshot from this produced video clip in the Media Library.
If you like, do a search, it's been discussed multiple times dating back multiple releases, like: https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/50730.page#267348
Jeff
Thanks Jeff
Unfortunately its no good doing it from the library as in the timeline it is zoomed in, and I need the zoomed frame to be captured (otherwise it isnt a freeze frame)
It's weird, the feature as it is just isn't usable :S
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Hi,
After completing my latest video, and the first big one I did in PowerDirector I noticed that everywhere I had used Freeze Frame the resulting Snapshot.jpg it created was very low quality
My original video was a 4k video, and the JPS was 3840x2160, but unbeleivably low quality
After tearing my hair out quite a lot, I found that almost no settings made a difference
One google suggested changing the Timeline preview quality to Ultra HD, and while this massively slowed me down, the snapshots were still low quality
Accidentally I found that if I did "Render Preview" first, the the snapshot was a perfect match of the last frame of the video.
But this takes 10+ minutes, and as soon as you do Freeze Frame the green line disappears for the rest of the video (presumably as the timeline just changed), and the next time you do Freeze Frame it will be low quality again
In the end I managed to fix this specific video, but it required me to:
0) Render preview for the entire video
1) find each low quality snapshot
2) find the video it was created from in the timeline, and select it
3) go to the timeline preview for that specific clip
4) find the right timestamp to snapshot
5) select Snapshot in the preview
6) save this in a new folder
7) locate it in the media library
![]() drag it over the original snapshot and do Replace
I had to do that loop for 45 snapshots - took near 2 hours
Am I missing something obvious? It cant be that you have to have a slow timeline preview (Ultra HD) and a full Render Preview before snapshot will generate one tat matches the video it was clipped from????
Jak
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