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P2 Frame Grabs for print
Though I do understand that these images are not great nor are they intended for print, our clients want the highest quality possible
frame grabs from our P2 footage (720pn60) for a publication.Exporting an image from FCP gives me that squished 960×760 frame, and exporting from the quicktime movie looks pretty bad, the anti aliasing and compression are quite evident… and i am deinterlacing..
Does anyone know of a good workflow for getting the best quality frame grabs from P2 footage?
I’ve tried the export from FCP, and the export from QuickTime, and I have selected high quality playback, and done ‘none’ for compression on the export.Anyone else have any ideas?
Ross Hendrickson
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5 Replies
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If your have Photoshop just re-size the images…
You can also adjust gamma & brightness…
Thats what we do and the results look great! -
You should never, under any circumstances, de-interlace progressive footage; the only thing that accomplishes is to cut your resolution in half.
I’m no FCP expert but I’ve done this before; eExport a single frame from FCP and then resize and correct the aspect ratio in PhotoShop.
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For the highest possible quality, do the uprezzing with Photo Zoom Pro.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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PhotoZoom Pro is a great program for this. Available for Mac or PC.
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One nice way of grabbing frames, is to open the file in Quicktime, select the desired frame and hit copy and paste directly into a new photoshop document.
You can have a look at the result here:
https://www.vulture.no/testvid
Cheers!
Gunleik
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