Clip Snapshot 1.0.0

Clip Snapshott in an iMovie plug-in of a very special kind. it doesn’t actually provide an effect that can be applied to a clip. rather, it’s a productivity tool that allows you to use snapshots of your clip outside of iMovie.
Clip Snapshot plug-in allows you to select any area from any frame in a clip, and -- at the touch of button -- exports the contents of the active are to the clipboard or a number of different file formats. if you choose to export to a file, you can also specify various compression settings.
Clip Snapshot plug-in also allows you to choose between different source formats to ensure non-distorted snapshots (important for those people that use PAL or VGA source).
Use this ‘effect’ whenever you need to quickly take a snapshot of your clip, and rather not go through the screenshot-crop-export cycle. We use this little tool for creating:
- storyboards
- documentation
- cd/dvd covers
- collages
- animated gifs from movies
Main features:
w and h indicators:
- these indicators show you the width, and height, of the currently active selection. they update automatically.
source pop-up:
- this pop-up allows you to specify the source format the plug-in shall use to take the snapshot from. use it only if you are using a different source than the one your project is currently set to.
destination pop-up:
- here you can choose where the effect should put the clip to. you can choose between file and clipboard.
format pop-up:
- note that this pop-up is only available when you choose ‘file’ as output format.
- this pop-up allows you to choose the file format for the snapshot. currently available file formats are PICT (standard mac picture format), JPEG (lossy compression), and BMP (shudder ? a windows file format, best use: never).
- when saving, you may set various options for every file format.
take snapshot button
- clicking this button will either copy the contents of the active rectangle to the clipboard, or export it to file.