Save one frame of your video as an image

The screenshot shows the picture at the red vertical line, the playhead. Start by choosing the moment you want.

1. 1Drag left or right along the time ruler (the row of numbers such as 00:00 and 00:02) to move the red line to the moment you want. Here it is at 2.80 seconds.
2. 2Check the expression and the text in the preview above. What you see here becomes the image.
3. 3To be precise, watch the small playhead time shown at the lower left of the screen while you move it.

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   Action Drag left or right along the time ruler (the row of numbers such as 00:00 and 00:02) to move the red line to the moment you want. Here it is at 2.80 seconds.
2. 2
   Check Check the expression and the text in the preview above. What you see here becomes the image.
3. 3
   Check To be precise, watch the small playhead time shown at the lower left of the screen while you move it.

Check In this example the avatar clip shows Preview generated. You can take a screenshot before generating, but the avatar then appears as a still pose. Generate first if you want an expression from the middle of the speech.

The toolbar just below the preview has a camera-shaped button.

1. 1Click the camera button. No confirmation appears; the image is saved at once.
2. 2Hovering over the button shows its name and the shortcut, Ctrl+Shift+E.

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1. 1
   Action Click the camera button. No confirmation appears; the image is saved at once.
2. 2
   Check Hovering over the button shows its name and the shortcut, Ctrl+Shift+E.

Check Ctrl+Shift+E does the same. Press it while the timeline is active, not while you are typing in a text field.

After you click the button, the result appears at the lower right.

1. 1This is the camera button you clicked.
2. 2A message says the screenshot was saved, with its size (1280×720) and the file name.

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1. 1
   Check This is the camera button you clicked.
2. 2
   Check A message says the screenshot was saved, with its size (1280×720) and the file name.

Check The image is a PNG file saved to your browser's download location (the Downloads folder on the computer used for this demonstration). Its name follows the pattern project name, minute-second-frame and a short code; 00-02-24 here means minute 0, second 2, frame 24 (2.80 seconds). The message disappears by itself after a while.

This is the image that was actually saved. It is 1280×720, the same size as the project, with none of the editor's buttons or frames.

1. 1The heading and its background box appear just as in the preview.
2. 2The avatar appears as it was at the playhead. The background fills the whole frame.

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1. 1
   Check The heading and its background box appear just as in the preview.
2. 2
   Check The avatar appears as it was at the playhead. The background fills the whole frame.

Check Use it like any image: paste it into a document, base a thumbnail on it, or share it for review. For another scene, move the playhead and take another one.

The same feature is in the Edit menu at the top. From here you can also copy the image to the clipboard, the place where your computer temporarily keeps what you copy, without saving a file.

1. 1Click Edit at the top.
2. 2Take a screenshot at the current position works like the camera button. Ctrl+Shift+E is shown beside it.
3. 3To paste the image straight away without saving a file, click Copy screenshot at the current position.

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1. 1
   Action Click Edit at the top.
2. 2
   Check Take a screenshot at the current position works like the camera button. Ctrl+Shift+E is shown beside it.
3. 3
   Action To paste the image straight away without saving a file, click Copy screenshot at the current position.

Check In this figure the playhead had been moved to 7.42 seconds before the menu was opened.

After you choose Copy screenshot at the current position, the result appears at the lower right.

1. 1A message says the screenshot was copied to the clipboard (1280×720). No file is saved.

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   Check A message says the screenshot was copied to the clipboard (1280×720). No file is saved.

Check Then press Ctrl+V where you want the image. In this demonstration we confirmed that the copied image is identical to the saved one, and that pressing Ctrl+V in the same editor adds it to the timeline as an image clip named 貼り付け画像 1. Pasting into presentation software or chat tools is not demonstrated on this page.

When a text or image clip is selected, the preview shows a blue frame and round handles. You can take a screenshot in this state.

1. 1The heading is selected, so its frame and handles are showing. The image taken in this state was identical to the one taken with nothing selected.

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   Check The heading is selected, so its frame and handles are showing. The image taken in this state was identical to the one taken with nothing selected.

Check One more point: a moment with no clips. In this example, a screenshot taken at 10.43 seconds, after everything had ended, was saved as a completely black image. Take it where the preview shows a picture. The empty row at the bottom of the timeline (trk_5) was created when we tried pasting in the previous step.