[Jeff David]

I went schlepping around this weekend taking pictures w my 35 mm camera of the historic spots that I want to make into a book.

I want to do a book version of my video project after I finish the video project. Of course, that’s all about all of the historic location around where I live in Boston.

Now, I understand what you were saying about the pixels and why printing pics off of my video frames won’t cut it.

Don’t laugh at this, well ok – you can laugh but what if I took pictures w my 35 mm camera right off of my computer screen, of the frames that I want to make into conventional type pictures?

I.e. stop my video on the frames that I want to make into pictures, take a picture of the picture on my computer screen?

It wouldn’t be too too hard to go back to all of the actual locations and take the pictures w the 35 mm camera, but it would be somewhat of a pain in the neck. I’ll go back if I have to, but I actually video taped pictures our of books (that were in the public domain) and put them in my video project and they look fine. So I’m thinking it might be the same if I just take 35 mm pictures right off of my computer screen?

I guess I can DO it and then see how the pictures look.

Yea, I guess I can just find out that way.

Hope this all does not sound too absurd but it will be a pain to go back to those places again, but I will if I have to.

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[Jeff David]

I ordered the microphone John.

Is that good enough for professional purposes?

Ok that’s prob a silly question that it’s suitable for tv or cable broadcast but, well is it?

Not that I have ever sold a show to tv or cable but hope springs eternal.

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[Jeff David]

OH I see.

Ok fixes them to the timeline. I did not make that connection but now I see. Ahhhh!

OK thanks for the warning. IF there is a chance of really messing up then I won’t fix the markers.

I’m doing ok just moving them back now – but I don’t have too many so it’s ok but if I had a lot of markers, couldn’t do that.

But I only need a few of them at this point.

thanks again!

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[Jeff David]

OK I see, it’s all about the pixels. Duh? I guess I should have known to go by the pixel count.

I see now that is the measure of quality.

Uh I sort of knew that but wasn’t thinking along those lines.

Now I will always remember quality = pixels.

I was going to try to get by w making pics off the frames of video but I now understand that would be a hugh mistake.

OK so I can go out w my 35 mm and take the pictures I need that way.

I’ll have to go back to all of the same places, w the 35 mm but that won’t be too hard to do.

Besides, it’s a hobby anyways.

Thanks John!

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[Jeff David]

OK once again John, thanks a million!

I’m going to buy exactly what you recommended!

Your an expert so I’m definitely taking your advice.

Also, the price is awesome! Definitely in my price range!

I can’t thank you enough John!

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[Jeff David]

Awesome thanks but the clips are actually in focus when I re-imported them into another timeline but this is good to know.

Lol some people (on other forums) told me there was no way to correct out of focus clips. I guess they didn’t know.

Thanks a lot!!

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[Jeff David]

OK thanks. I was trying to do it from the media pane window initially and that’s why it wouldn’t work.

I was under the erroneous thought that it was done via media pane window.

I now see you do it from the timeline.

Great and thanks!

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[Jeff David]

I tried copy and paste did not work.

I have Movie Studio not Vegas Pro.

I’ll try copying and pasting again. Maybe I did something wrong.

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[Jeff David]

Thanks for the tip on the What’s this – I hadn’t used that cause I didn’t think to or know what it was.

OK thanks – yup – before asking I did do the right click and I did see that timeline prompt – hmm I looked at it but did not think that was it.

Now that you explained it, it was so obvious I should have clicked on that.

But now I know! Thanks a lot!

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[Jeff David]

OK John, thanks.

It’s also possible, that I shot in H def but when capturing to my computer, had the capture setting on standard def. I am familiar with the fact that the capture setting can be determined by the camcorder settings.

SO, once I find the original mini-dv tape, I’ll be able to tell if the original footage was shot in 1440×180 or 640×480.

IF it was shot in 1440×1080, all I would have to do is recapture it with the correct hdef setting

IF it’s 640×480 in original footage, I can just reshoot it as the place is just down the road.

Thanks!

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