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still frames from final cut sequences
I need to create some high res video stills from a few different pojects. I am going to be using them for website documentation, (which may not need to be as high quality) but I am also probably going to use some of them for a power point type show. The stills I use for the show would probably need to be pretty high quality. I think I have done this before using quicktime, btu I am wondering if I can do it in Final Cut.
Either way, whats the best way to make high res video stills?
thanks
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5 Replies
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i export a quicktime out of fcp as an uncompressed movie and then just do the export targa sequence in quicktime pro
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With any image or video, you can’t end up with a higher quality than you started off with, so your original video quality will determine the end quality of your stills.
File>Export>Using QuickTime Conversion
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Bizarre advice. You don’t want to deinterlace if you don’t have to. Only do it if you see something you don’t like. Photoshop is definitely the tool of choice, because you can deinterlace only the areas of the image neccessary. Any deinterlacing is going to either lessen the resolution or sharpness. Unless an image has a good bit of motion in it, it should be fine. Generally, try to pause on a frame that doesn’t have any flicker in ntsc and that’s going to be the best for export. If you don’t see any flicker in interlaced playback, then an export will be great.
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The reason I posted about deinterlacing is that a lot of video has motion, and that does need to be deinterlaced, otherwise you will end up with the comb effect in your stills.
How you deal with it depends on things like workflow and how much time you want to spend on tweaking the video. Some deinterlacers are smart enough to do nothing in areas in frame where there is no movement, others might have to be told not, while others will reduce your resolution by half. There is a whole range of ways of handing the mixed temporal nature of video.
For video that has no movement in the frame, I would agree with you: there is no need to deinterlace the video. I guess I was assuming there was some level of movement in the video, since that is the ‘hard’ case.
Bill Lee
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Just re-reading my postings again – Bret Williams is right and there may be no need to deinterlace your exported still at all. I re-read my response to his reply and it looks like I’m trying to justify my posting saying that deinterlacing was necessary. Only if you have movement in your frame do you need to deinterlace, and then it should be done only in those areas that need it.
Bill Lee
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