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16X9 frame grabs
Can anyone please tell me how to export a frame to a tiff through quicktime conversion preserving the 16X9 aspect ratio on an HDV timeline.
When looking at the frame grab on a quicktime viewer it appears to be in a 4X3 format which results in distortion. -
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I had to do about a hundred widescreen frame grabs recently and the only way I know how to do this is to resize the pictures in Photoshop, changing the aspect ratio from 720×480 to 854×480 using the resize image command.
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I created a timeline with all my little single frames that I wanted to export and print (frame enlargements, right?). I went into motion and distorted the first still by -33%. Then I copied that attribute to all the others.
I then exported that as a Quicktime stills sequence to JPEG or whatever and — BANG — suddenly loads of little JPEGS appeared on my desktop.
By the way, I raised the density levels somewhat prior to export.
Worked fine for me.
Best
Harry
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I am sure there is a way to create a compressor preset to do the conversion.
Maybe output all the stills to a folder and drop them into compressor for teh 853×480 resize.
David
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Thank you one and all for your suggestions. Maybe FCP 6 will have an image size adjuster for
frame grabs? -
You can do it today:
– In the Compressor preset select the Geometry tab
– Set Frame Size to Custom
– Set Width to 1920, Height to 1080 and Pixel Aspect to Square
– Save the presetAll still frame exports using this preset will be at full size and proper 16:9 aspect ratio. Now if only you could do JPEGs from Compressor…
Martin
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