Is it possible to take pictures with the DVX? (please help)

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strikerx

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Hey everyone,

I had a question regarding the DVX. Is it possible to take pictures with the camera? or any way to make them? I have a school project due in about 2 weeks that involves me presenting a scene with photos/pictures(pictures have to be developed however, not printed from a cheap printer). I want to have the same look in the picture as I would a movie shot with the DVX, since the instructor will grade it based on how well the "scene" is lit, presented, etc.

Ive never actually tried it, but Ive seen members post grabs/pictures on here. Are those done from the camera or an editing software?

I would appreciate the help.

Thnaks.
 
Are you talking about grabbing a frame from a video clip? This can be accomplished with almost any NLE.

Now, your comment "...pictures have to be developed however, not printed from a cheap printer..." I am not certain that I understand what you are trying to convey by this statement. Can you post the question again with a bit more clarification?
 
Hey Khmuse,

The project requires us to make a poster board with about 10-12 photos presenting a certain scene from a move we are making. The photos cannot be something that you can print out from your home printer (so I couldn't just frame some scenes and print them out on regular printer paper). Basically, it has to be the type of photos that you develop from a 1-hour photo place. I could just use the family photo camera to take the photos, but I would prefer to the "film" look. Since I have a DVX, I was hoping to be able do something like that.

I know that some camcorders work both as a camcorder and a photo camera(by putting in the photo card or something).

If all else fails, would it even be possible to print a frame photo taken from a video clip? Maybe if I buy photo quality printer paper I could have it work. hmmm.

I hope I made sense. If not, please let me know.

Thanks.
 
So, you are saying that you need to use chemical based photography (hence the reference to "developing") and not digital? Is this correct?

If this is correct, then you are lucky because getting a "film look" from something like a good 35mm SLR is much easier than just about any other format.

The advantages are that you can set the shutter speed to mimic the motion character of 24 fps film (about 1/60th of a second is just about perfect). The depth of filed can be as shallow or shallower than 35mm motion picture film. The speed of still film means that you can likely shoot it with a theatrical lighting setup.

You will then need to use either a photographic (separation, striping, etc) or electronic (scanning & desk top publishing) process to create your "poster".

By the way, not all "camcorders" have built in still frame capability, but as I mentioned, you can grab a frame from just about any NLE. Obviously, progressive frames will yield much better results than interlaced ones, so if your camera (DVX?) has the ability to support progressive capture, then that would give the best results.

Hope that this helps.

Best of luck on this project.
 
Photo quality print paper, or snag frames with an editor, save them to disk, and bring them to a shop that makes prints from digital images (I think most do, these days).
 
khmuse said:
So, you are saying that you need to use chemical based photography (hence the reference to "developing") and not digital? Is this correct?
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Actually, I think you and GenJerDan just said it more clearer than me. Basically what I want to do is that same thing you can do with a digital photo camera. I believe that you can take the photo chip to a store and develop the digital pictures or print them at home if you have photo printer paper. But is it even possible to do either of those?

So I want to shoot footage, take a grab/frame it, then I wanted to see if I can save it to a disk (or digital camera chip?) and have those dvx taken grabs developed.
 
You'll have to extract a single frame using an editor, then save the frame to a disk to bring to the shop.

Oh. Be sure you take the original footage in 24P (or PA), or you won't have real frames to grab, you'll have fields you'll have to combine into a frame before saving. The quality will go waaaay down.
 
yea I do it all the time. But I have to bring the video clip into Final Cut Pro then make a freeze frame and export it out as a Jpeg file. You might be able to skip the freeze frame, I am not sure.
 
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