I use a webcam, with live feed from my camera in to Stopmotion Pro V7 and take the pictures from there. It is much easier than importing and has more features. I then export as a .MOV or a .AVI for high quality. After that I then import the video file in to Sony Vegas Pro 9 and edit my video. I export with the same frame rate and as a .AVI with high quality. Thats what I do. BTW I wouldn't reccomend Pinnacle, it has pretty bad editing capabilities from what I've used with it. Happy animating!

-Tejas VIM

Umm you could do this two ways,

1.Find the frame you want to extend and just import that and do whatever you want with it
2. Dont import all the scenes at first, edit the first scene first and that should solve your problem

Thanks for the video... I had no clue what you were talking about until watched it. What you're trying to do is take a single frame and hold it for multiple frames. You're going to want to cut out the particular frame(s) in question, forming a new clip, and change the speed of this new clip so that it lasts for the desired amount of time. I've never used Vegas, so if you want to know exactly what tools to use, someone else is going to have to chime in.

For the extending a frame thingy, I find that the way that works best is to seperate that frame from all the other frames, the duplicate that frame over and over again until you get the desired leangth.

Also please see this video to better understand me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO0wTN1EbtY

Nah i want something easier.

Nope

Oh and you can't live without doing the exact same thing as thefourmonkeys? How about some originality?
Real Brick's idea is simpler since it only takes SECONDS. You know you can just delete the frames when you're done.

besides, in windows movie maker, you can extend an image to the right, without overlapping the other images like in sony vegas.