so i wanna get a still frame

[mobiledeli]

i got some video... its cool, and i want to take a still frame from it and print it out as a real high quality print. if i just export frame, it doesnt look that good, is there a way i can make it look betteR?

 

[Daniel Skubal]

save it as a tiff, + million colors, and change the resolution 1365x1024 or something else with a matching resolution. It's basically uprezzing, and then in photoshop you tell it to print at whatever dimension you want it to.

 

[Andrew Brinkhaus]

export the frame and change the resolution (1024, 768, etc.) Another big part of achieving the "quality" print is your print device. I use the Canon i990 photo printer and it works amazingly.

note: disregard the last sentence if you are getting your still developed elsewhere.

 

[egproductions]

the term high quality print is obviously based on someones opinion. usually the standard print quality of an image is 300dpi so if you take a video stil that is 720x480 or rather 640x480 sqaure pixel then the max size you will be able to achieve is 2.133x1.6 inch (not too big) you can always print at a lower dpi or uprez (some will give you better results than others depending on what program you use) but either way it will come out looking blurrier than youa re used to seeing "quality prints as"

 

[TeleDan]

When you export the frame, try to avoid using the 'deinterlace video footage' option that's on the rendering page. From what I've seen, that option appears to just take just a half frame and do a line doubler on it; even with progressive footage. The resulting TIFF file looks real soft. If you're exporting a DVX100 progressive frame, the resulting image will look real nice up to about a 4x6" photo (IMHO, of course). If you're starting with interlaced footage, there are better tools available for deinterlacing frame before exporting it.

-Dan

 

[overnighttolondon]

I found a great piece of software called Paparazzi for accomplishing this. It extracts stills from your footage with much higher resolution than NTSC. I know, I know, it sounds like a scam. How can you get extra resolution (and I mean real resolution, not just upsizing) from nothing?

What it does is analyze for example 5 (you can choose the number) adjacent frames in your video and makes a higher-resolution composite. They boast 5 MPixel possibility, but I'd asy your actual resolution (independed of any upsizing the program does) is about half that, which is still pretty good. I've managed to get some ok prints out of it, certainly more than with just a frame grab and a Photoshop resize, and it's not that expensive. You can get a watermarking demo version here:

http://www.redhawkvision.com/

Don't forget to set your page size to 8.5x11 to get maximum resolution. Oh, and it tends to mess with your exposure, you'll probably need to pull it into Photoshop when you're done and play with the levels.

 

[Baluardo]

the resolution will never be 'high'. depending on the subject, you can get decent results upsampling the resolution with Photozoom. in some cases it works great.

About the smallest acceptable printing dpi, there's no real rule. I got very decent results printing (from a lab on photo paper) at 100dpi and less.

Andrea