Freeze - 1.3

[ThOr101]

I'm not new, but probably inexperienced to Openshot.

With the freeze frame (Freeze) effect in 1.3, how do we use it.

It requests the frame number to freeze.
Is this relative to the entire project, or the clip?
If we trimmed from the front and back of the clip is it from the original, or from the the length into the clip.

Also, other than doing mathematics, is there anyone to get a frame number of the cursor, rather than multiplying by 30, etc.?

Thanks

P.S. If this is explained somewhere, I'd love a pointer.

[Hidden_Tree]

Hi,

With the freeze frame (Freeze) effect in 1.3, how do we use it.

I have the same question and could not find anything about that.
How do I get the frame number?

Ist there anybody out there who could explain this?

Thank you very much,

Hidden_Tree

[Andy]

I've never used this effect myself. But just taking a look at the documentation for it, well, it's not much help:

http://www.mltframework.org/twiki/bin/view/MLT/FilterFreeze

I would assume it's the frame number of the specific clip, but that would be just a guess. I can't think of a way to display the frame number at the moment.

Depending on what you are trying to do you might find it easier to use the frame snapshot feature in OpenShot (Ctrl + D). This will grab a frame from a clip (use the left & right keys to step to the frame you want) and import it as a new clip. There is no compositing on this though, so it might not be suitable.

[guzzibar]

I was looking for better documentation on this feature too...
But in the absence of that here is the way I currently use it (which I'm sure could be improved):

cut the video at the point of the freeze frame.
Adjust the length of the cut video to the length of the freeze
apply the freeze effect
change the freeze effect settings to "Freeze after" = Yes
all other settings remain at default.

Hope this helps.

[Hidden_Tree]

On answers.launchpad.net/openshot/+question/103709 I found this:

You must select a part of you clip that you 'd like to have this effect because he is applied on all the clip.
After, you should go to the clip's preference, last tab, select the effect in the list for display his values and modify them to obtain the effect desired. You could preview the result before apply it.

[cdan]

cut the video at the point of the freeze frame.
Adjust the length of the cut video to the length of the freeze
apply the freeze effect
change the freeze effect settings to "Freeze after" = Yes
all other settings remain at default.

This does not work for me. The results are always unexpected.
What is the meaning of Freeze After and Freeze Before ?t

Best regards,
Dan.