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High Quality Freeze Frame
First of all I know how to make and export a freeze frame. My question is, does anyone think that if I shoot HD video with a Panasonic HVX 200 on P2 and edit in FCP, will I be able to export a high enough quality freeze frame for a magazine layout. Think decorating and gardening.
I work for a large magazine company and they would like for the photographers who shoot video to take over for the photographers shooting stills. I know there is a different shooting mentality completely. Just a desire from those higher up that me and I get to ask my bovine friends. I have been under the impression that HD video is still considerably less quality than the high quality SLR digital cameras used now.
Basically just how good do you think HD video is compared to High Quality digital stills?
Just thought I’d ask those who would know.
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HD video, at best is 1920 X 1080 pixels.
Thats still considerably less resolution than professional still photography.
If you want the magazine to look good, use still photographic equipment and shooters.
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[David Willey] “My question is, does anyone think that if I shoot HD video with a Panasonic HVX 200 on P2 and edit in FCP, will I be able to export a high enough quality freeze frame for a magazine layout. Think decorating and gardening.”
Nope, I can tell you that for a fact. Even 1080p is not high enough quality for a magazine layout unless you keep the images small.
This is the one area where the RED camera really stands out. 4K images that could actually be used for magazine work. One DP I know of is considering the camera partially for that reason.
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Just recently I read an article about a photo journalist who went to the middle east and used an HDV camera instead of his still camera. By doing this, he was able to change the shutter speed to be really fast so that each frame was nice and crisp. By doing this, he had thousands of stills to choose from, which was both good and bad.
One advantage that he mentioned was the ability to capture a rocket firing out of a helicopter. That’s pretty cool. The man said he thought that using a video camera for stills was definitely the future.
But as far a quality goes, my Nikon D80 knocks the socks of the HVX200. Two huge differences are quality and resolution of the image sensor and quality of the lens. Even if I just shot at 1920×1080 on my D80, the images are going to look a lot better than if I just used a HVX200.
But back to your question, I don’t know the print world so I can’t answer the question of if 1920×1080 is large enough to be used in a magazine. I’m sure it would work, but there’s probably some size that you shouldn’t pass because it would be too grainy.
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