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Puling a Still Frame to Print on a Poster
I need to pull a still frame from from our footage to be printed on a poster.
I have done this but the image is not great quality (looks slightly pixelated), especially when poster size.
I tried exporting the frame as TIFF, JPEG and a Photoshop documents…..all with the same result.
The exported still images were 1920×1080 pixels (same as footage)The director insists there is a way to export these images that will be good quality for print……he says he’s done it with standard def footage.
However I’m not so sure.There were stills shot on the location which look much sharper (because they are approx 4000×2500 pixels)
Our footage is 1080p 29.97fps shot on a Cannon Mark V.
Is there a trick I’m missing?
Any Suggestions??
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9 Replies
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That director is full of BS. 1920×1080 frame looks good printed at 6.4″x3.6″. It may look ok at 9.6″x5.4″. Anything bigger will look like crap.
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And they are only 72dpi…SD or HD, doesn’t matter. 1920×1080 72dpi is the best it gets.
Shane
Little Frog Post
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[Rory Keenan] “There were stills shot on the location which look much sharper (because they are approx 4000×2500 pixels)”
With this he can expect something a bit better, but tell him don’t expect miracles.
They may try some Photoshop plugin to improve the upscaling.
As Michael said, with 1920×1080 you can get something around 6.4″x3.6″ with average printing quality (300dpi).
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Video resolutions are NOT print quality.
Chris Tompkins
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[Michael Aranyshev] “That director is full of BS. 1920×1080 frame looks good printed at 6.4″x3.6″. It may look ok at 9.6″x5.4″. Anything bigger will look like crap.”
Precise on all accounts…
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They’re whatever DPI you want them to be. Up to 1920 DPI. You simply change the DPI in your print program (PS) or it will do it for you depending on how you set the scaling parameters in the image size dialog. 6.5″ wide is what you’ll get for 300dpi. The image will be printed 6.5″ wide and will be 300dpi.
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They are at a particular size. SD was another story. But with HD you’re able to grab a decent rez magazine shot. But they’re often blurry due to the slow shutter speed or camera movement. Just not the same as a nice sharp still.
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You could try the Genuine Fractals program for upscaling, or whatever it is they call it now – it doesn’t add rez, it uses fractals to make the rez you have work over a larger scaled size.
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Great answer for sure.
I’ll bet we’ll see a day shortly where someone like AJA, Teranex or other will upscale HD to 4k in a hardware up conversion, you print from that…
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