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Getting Still images from footage
Hi all, I’m trying to save some still images from video in a project i’m working on. I’m using the “export frame” button from the project window, but when I save the image, some colors are off for some reason. For example there are some green patches on the blue sky, stuff like that. Anyone know how to get around that? thanks!
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9 Replies
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What is your source footage and what format are you saving it to?
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Its avchd, (converted to dnxhd). I’m exporting to jpeg. I tried other formats too though and the same thing happened.
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Here’s an example of what I mean. The first photo is my original footage, the second is the exported frame with the weird patchy colors:
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Strange. I’ve exported hundreds of JPGs, as recently as yesterday, and not seen this. You on a Mac or W7 machine? Have you seen this same phenomenom with AVCHD footage shot on this same camera before? What version of Pr are you running?
Al
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CS6 (I’m not sure if the previous versions have it) has a nifty feature that I use a lot.
On the far right is a camera icon. Click that. Save it as a TIFF.
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hey, thats what I am using. I didn’t get a chance to test out any regular AVCHD footage without converting it to DNxHD to see if that helps. For now I’m just using screen captures from my mac.
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Why did you convert the footage?
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[Richard Herd] “Why did you convert the footage?”
I’d guess because AVCHD is one of the worst codecs in terms of performance.
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As long as (a) the Media Browser points to the camera archive (and not just the .mts for example), then PP does very well with AVCHD, and (b) the scratch disk is fast, then it does fine.
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