creating an amazing thumbnail for
youtube requires the perfect screenshot
i'm going to show you how i use davinci
resolve to line up to the perfect frame
and do just that
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today okay this one's going to be a nice
quick and simple tutorial folks what i'm
going to do is just drag that into my
timeline that's the video that i want to
grab my thumbnail from
and first thing i want to do is i want
to make sure that my timeline
source is set to the uh the maximum
resolution
that i'm able to handle for this
particular video so if this is a 4k
video source i would select a 4k
canvas
otherwise if it's 1920x1080 1080p i
would select 1080. so regardless of what
the video that i'm producing is i want
to actually select the highest
resolution that the the source video is
because my screen capture is going to
match the timeline resolution that i've
selected here in my timeline format in
davinci resolve so now anywhere on this
timeline i can scroll just like this and
if i want to make it a little bit easier
now notice that i've got snapping turned
off that is very very helpful in this
case make sure you turn off the magnet
tool
and then you can just kind of slide
around like this
zoom right in so that we can get right
in see these lines these are frames so i
can next frame next frame next frame and
i can get right in there and find the
one that is absolutely perfect for what
i want to do
so for the case of a thumbnail i'd want
something that is a little bit off to
the side
and there we go so let's say that is the
perfect notice that i'm using the zoom
tool to be able to change my snapping
here and it's snapping to these lines
because i've turned off the uh this tool
here
so instead i'm snapping frame by frame
by frame by frame versus if i had
snapping turned on it's snapping
uh at this zoom level it's still
snapping by the frame but um if you had
anything selected or cut
we're working with a raw video here
that's already rendered so it's a little
bit easier
but in your case you may have something
that is cut up in your timeline so you
definitely want to turn that off and
zoom in that's going to help you out a
lot
so
with the frame selected that i want
let's say that's the one that i want i'm
going to click on to my color grading
screen here and uh we typically think of
this as where we're gonna grade our our
scene where we're gonna add our chroma
key things like that but in this case if
this is the perfect frame that i want
i'm just gonna right click on the
preview window here and click grab still
now that's created this guy over here
but you notice it's motion and it's but
every time i move my mouse off of it it
jumps right back to that
very scene
just like that so now i don't actually
have a still i haven't actually saved
anything there's nothing in my
my media pool here but back here now
that i've got this still here i can
right click on it and go export
and now i'm just going to pop this on my
desktop and
now notice here save as type at the
bottom i'm going to change that to ping
png and we're going to call this
my
screenshot
and i don't have to give it an extension
it's going to do that automatically and
click export and now even though it
doesn't look like it's done anything at
all if i bring up my desktop
we'll see that there are two files a drx
file which is the uh basically the the
color correction that i've done here if
i've done any it saves that to a script
there and then there's a ping file so
this ping file
i can now open into my editor
and i have the exact high resolution
full resolution screen grab that i was
looking for directly from davinci
resolve
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