[MacDV] Still photos from movies

[Wilhelm Wanders]

well, unless it was some HD movie that you took the still frame from,  
you probably won't end up with a high quality pic.
NTSC and PAL are both pretty low res sources for images. so is  
MPEG2 ... like a still frame from a DVD has usually 720x480 (besides  
the fact that the pixels are being displayed differently in film and  
in still). if you have a good image adjusting program, like  
photoshop, you might be able to try to blow up the picture - but you  
will not have crisp and clear results.
so, qt or imovie can only save this dimension, because this is what  
it gets off the movie :)


On Oct 15, 2005, at 2:18 PM, Patty Winter wrote:

>
> 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
>
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