• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Exporting high-res stills from timeline

  Posted by Jon Boffa on October 1, 2006 at 2:22 am

  I have attempted a few export to “still image” via QTime Compression and I can’t seem to get an image higher than around 250KB. I’ve tried most file types, set it to highest quality, and so on, but all come out pretty much the same.
  I’m working with HDV video, creating still images from a timeline, bringing the images to a new timeline, then exporting via above method and it doesn’t deliver that great of resolution.

  What’s the best way to get the highest possible resolution?? I will need to create prints and I’m afraid 250KB won’t cut it. My still dig. cam (5mp) usually creates 1MB pics, and these print out very well; but 1/4 of that I’m thinking won’t.

  Any suggestions?

  Uli Plank replied 19 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Uli Plank

  October 1, 2006 at 7:26 am

  Did you choose an uncompressed format, like TIFF or Targa, or do you use JPEG?

  Well, anyway, you are coming from a highly compressed format: HDV, and even uncompressed your resolution would be just 2 megapixels. Most modern still-video cameras have much more.

  There is a great program to prepare lo-res stills for printing, called Photo Zoom Pro, give the demo a try.

  Regards,

  Uli

  Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

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