[MacDV] Still photos from movies

[Patty Winter]

The other day, I used the Create Still Frame command in iMovie
to, well, create a still frame from a movie. :-) I was left with
a document with a generic icon that I was able to open in QuickTime.
I then tried various ways of exporting the image in an attempt to 
make a good Desktop picture.

In the Movie to Picture export options, I selected the Photo-JPEG
option, then tried both the Uncompressed and Photo-JPEG "Use"
settings. The resulting files were vastly different in size (1.3MB
for the uncompressed version; 44KB for the Photo-JPEG version),
but I guess because they were both 720x480 pixels, they look the
same when I bring them up as a full-screen Desktop picture.

I don't see any options in iMovie (3.0.3) to save the still frame
at any different size, so I guess 720x480 is it and I just have to
live with a less-than-ideal image when I display it on my 21" LCD?


Patty