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| Here is the situation, Last week a friend caught his first ski, a nice 41.
While I was taking what I thought was a picture, it was on video mode.
Now my problem is does anyone know how to get a still from the video?
We took a pick from a disposible but not to shure how that will turn out.
Any suggestions?
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Location: South Portsmouth, KY | If the camera is anything like mine, just playback the video and pause it on what you want a picture of, then hit the shutter button as if you were taking a picture. It should take a picture from the video. See if that works!
Edited by muskie_man 3/27/2007 1:19 PM
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Location: Appleton, WI | A picture from video definitely won't be as nice as one captured on a 6 mega-pixel camera or that on film. Reason being because typically the resolution isn't as high as you'd want for printed media. Video is typically interlaced and only needs to be around 72 ppi for T.V. or monitor viewing. The only exception possibly would be if you capture it on a High Definition Camera. Even then there's some image issues depending on what type of capture setting it is at.
One quick question. Does your camera have the ability to capture stills on it? Some cameras have the ability to capture still images in conjunction to video. You can stop the frame that you want in the viewfinder, and capture the still by clicking on the capture button. Make sure your still images are at the highest possible resolution. Also try doing a search for software that will allow you to capture still images for video. This could possibly be the best option after logging the video that you captured.
Good luck and I hope I was of some help,
Catch ya later,
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| If you can get the video onto the computer, you should be able to save a frame of the video as a .jpg
Good Luck
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| I export them as bmp out of adobe premier. Most folks don't have premier but you might be able to find a cheap vid editing software that will let you do that.
If you are running windows XP, "Windows Movie Maker" should be built in. start a new project and import the video. Navigate to the point you want and then choose tools> take picture from preview
you will get a jpg image 96 dpi. Which looks good on monitor but as Krappie mentioned may not translate to print very well. You'll have to experiment.
I've done some OK things taking an image out of video and working with it in photoshop but still not as good as a still shot originally. Luckily most of the work I'm doing is for the web where print quality doesn't matter as much.
Jono
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| Hey thanks for all the advice. The camera is an olympis (spelling?), and it has a video function on it. The button
must have turned when removing it from the case. Originally I thought it was good until I tried to lownload them.
Ya can see the still pic on the viewer on the back of the camera, but downloading was a problem. I will try some of
the above when I get home. Thanks alot, you guys have been great help.
Coop |
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| if all else fails, upload the video to your computer. download VLC Media Player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/). the player allows you to take shots of the video while playing. that is, if you don't have windows movie maker. |
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