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Chris, Will Alpha Paint let you pull or capture a frame of video? Or maybe I should ask, how do you get single frames of video into Alpha Paint? Since when I use Toaster Paint to cut out a brush, I seem to degrade the signal, how would I go about pulling in a single frame from video into Alpha Paint. I would then cut out a brush, which Composite Studio would be able to use. I looked through the Alpha Paint manual today but could not find any reference to bringing in an image. Just how to load images already stored on the drive.