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Export High Quality Stills
What is the highest quality method of exporting stills from a 10 bit Quicktime movie? I used Quicktime’s export to PNG with “Best” settings and the results look awful. They also come out labeled as .pct files instead of .png for some strange reason.
Thanks.
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6 Replies
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You can export stills from the FCP timeline. Mark In/Out on the same frame, export> quicktime conversion and select still image. You will then have options to create various stills files (tga, tiff etc).
If the footage is interlaced and has movement, drop a delinterlace filter on it before making the still.
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Does exporting from FCP have higher quality even if it uses “Quicktime Conversion”?
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You can reserach exporting stills by searching here and many other FCP forums. The question comes up often.
The main issue newbies do not understand is their video was shot on a camera that produces only about 800×500 pixels (standard DV). That’s it. There are no more pixels in the image. You can make the pixels bigger but you can’t add any more unless you know how to use some cool filters in Photoshop. Interlacing creates its won unique problems and solving them is not usually a function of FCP.
bogiesan
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[Alexander Lee] “Does exporting from FCP have higher quality even if it uses “Quicktime Conversion”?”
Hard to say because that is the workflow that works for me and the quality is as good as the source material.
You certainly get options to export in a variety of formats, not just .pct
Try it and compare and let me know if it is no different.
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since you posted this same question on the apple forum, please return to all of your open threads and let us know what you came up with or what you used to solve your problem.
bogiesan
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Thank you Michael, it worked! 🙂
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