http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: stills - Recent Posts en Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:03:57 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/importing-gl1-still-into-computer#post-64009 Sun, 05 Dec 2010 06:46:53 +0000 symphonitron 64009@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Though I've had my GL1 for 10 years, I have never tried to import a still image saved on MiniDV. I have an old tape in which I took several stills during the video, and I'd like to import them. Now, I am not sure how it's done. Of course I know how to find the stills with the search select, but then what? iPhoto doesn't recognize the Canon as a device. I already imported all the video into iMovie, and I can see my "freeze frame" but the playback image is crappy quality so I doubt I can do anything with that. What am I missing here? </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/import-of-high-quality-still-image-into-premiere-pro-cs4#post-53309 Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:28:55 +0000 jerronsmith 53309@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>While Premiere Pro will work with large still images many people that I have talked to who do it or have tried to do it seem to run into performance issues when working with larger images. So basically it can work with them but you many run into some frustration when trying to animate Pan &amp; Zoom effects on them. </p> <p>I would normally recommend using After Effects if you have it as you will normally have an easier time working with larger image formats there witha wider range of animation techniques available to you.</p> <p>And for clarification there is no such thing as Premiere Pro 7. The work Pro wasn't added to the title of the software until it was relaunched with a new Version 1. The original Premiere was a very different program, in some ways better and in some not from the current Premiere Pro iterations.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/import-of-high-quality-still-image-into-premiere-pro-cs4#post-52863 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:20:45 +0000 geraldprost 52863@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I'm sorry you got the run around by Adobe. Previous to PP the old Premiere was limited to the size of the project frame. If you are zooming around the picture, do a little planning for the best picture quality. If you take a very large DSLR picture and size it for video, it will require sharpening. Let's say you wanted to pan across a picture you might want it to be 200% of the project frame size. If it is a SD project 720 x 540 then you'd size you picture to 1440 x 1080. PS standard setting for unsharp mask will be fine. If you are doing a HD 1080p project then you might not want to size your stills at all. I hope this helps. I don't pan arround on my stills very often anymore. You might want to try this in After Effects. I hope this helps. Gerry in Calgary.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/import-of-high-quality-still-image-into-premiere-pro-cs4#post-52204 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:06:37 +0000 chuckengels 52204@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> A lot has changed in the software since your version, you will be very surprised :)</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/import-of-high-quality-still-image-into-premiere-pro-cs4#post-52202 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:33:31 +0000 bigsplash 52202@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> OK I shall give it a try ...many thanks to all of you.</p> <p> </p> <p>FYI I phoned Adobe and was passed around many times until I eventually reached technical support who did not have any idea about the spec for their own product. I say no more.</p> <p> </p> <p>Thanks to you all. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/import-of-high-quality-still-image-into-premiere-pro-cs4#post-52157 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:22:17 +0000 BruceMol 52157@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Ah, From 2003! I believe it now. </p> <p>CS3 version: <em>Support for any frame size up to 4,096x4,096 pixels, and for every major image and sequence file format (including AI, PSD, TGA, TIFF, and BMP),</em></p> <p><em>CS4 would be the same or better.</em></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/import-of-high-quality-still-image-into-premiere-pro-cs4#post-52145 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:33:07 +0000 bigsplash 52145@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I am referring to Premier Pro Version 7  (not elements and not CS3 or CS4) as having 720 x 576 pixels ...this is what the book says is the max STILL photo you can import. The LCD screen size is different and I can fill the screen but because I have a smaller pixel image the resolution is not as good as I would like. </p> <p>Are you sure that CS3 or CS4 can IMPORT a STILL (not video) image of 4096 x 4096 pixels? I have not yet bought CS4 and want to know prior to purchase without doing a trial download ideally. The trial software apparently is not HD but is SD..so it maybe no good for what i want to achieve.</p> <p>Thanks if you can help. .much appreciated.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/import-of-high-quality-still-image-into-premiere-pro-cs4#post-52143 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:18:44 +0000 chuckengels 52143@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Sounds like a SD NTSC Widescreen project maybe?</p> <p>TV is only so big, why show you more than what will be on the screen?<br />If you want bigger then use a HDV preset like 1080i and you can get 1440 x 1080 or even 1920 x 1080.<br />There are limits and they are the same in all editing applications.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/import-of-high-quality-still-image-into-premiere-pro-cs4#post-52141 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:27:34 +0000 BruceMol 52141@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>In PPro CS3 the max image size is 4096x4096. I can't see CS4 be any smaller. Are you talking about Premiere Elements perhaps? The 720x 576 size doesn't sound right though, you'd think that even the Elements ver. would allow wide screen images.Did you check the help screens?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/import-of-high-quality-still-image-into-premiere-pro-cs4#post-52140 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:42:00 +0000 bigsplash 52140@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> In Premier Pro 7 I have imported still images and then zoomed in / out, and have moved the images across the screen in all directions to give the illusion of a moving picture. The drawback is that the image size / resoloution is limited to a maximum of 720x 576 pixels within Version 7....Does anyone know if this is different for Premier Pro? </p> <p>I want to important high quality images taken on a Leica M8 camera and converted in Adobe Lightroom 2.5, followed by Adobe Photoshop CS4 both of which I own. </p> <p>The alternative way is supposed to be to buy Photodex Pro Show Producer which is tailored to high quality still images yet will accept video clips and sound track also. Although I suspect the video clip needs to be edited befor importing (Not sure about this).</p> <p>The end result is supposed to be a high quality slide show with slides (high quality stills) and video interleaved with a soundtrack from the original video and music mixed in. </p> <p>I'd appreciate any insight on the above ....Many thanks.</p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-can-i-capture-a-stillthumbnail-from-inside-vegas#post-48801 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:41:47 +0000 NormanWillis 48801@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thank you very much!</p> <p>I think I need to do a 'drive-wipe' (re-format), so I might be off-line for a while.</p> <p>See you back then.</p> <p>Norman</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-can-i-capture-a-stillthumbnail-from-inside-vegas#post-48791 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:29:32 +0000 Johnboy 48791@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> additionally, you want to make sure your project settings are set to progressive before capturing the still so you have a full field picture.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-can-i-capture-a-stillthumbnail-from-inside-vegas#post-48790 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:10:59 +0000 birdcat 48790@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>What Daryl said, but make sure you set the quality to Best-Full before you click the diskette icon.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-can-i-capture-a-stillthumbnail-from-inside-vegas#post-48785 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:20:42 +0000 daryldrj 48785@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Ok When you have vegas open place you marker on the timeline where you want to capture the thumbnail then look at you preview window and at the top of the preview window is a little diskette symbol click on that and it will save your snapshot to file. there you go hope I was able to explain that clearly enough</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-can-i-capture-a-stillthumbnail-from-inside-vegas#post-48781 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:40:56 +0000 NormanWillis 48781@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>How can I capture a still/thumbnail from inside Vegas?  I want to use it as a thumbnail in my Vimeo uploads.</p> <p>Thanks.</p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-info-about-capturing-stills-from-hd-video#post-35921 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:29:44 +0000 sonesta 35921@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thanks all!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-info-about-capturing-stills-from-hd-video#post-35873 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:37:23 +0000 RScottyL 35873@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I will use the example of a Canon HV30, which is a great "consumer" camcorder for less than $1000. It has the ability to shoot in 24p for the "film look" as well as shoot in 30p, which is great for posting things on the web.</p> <p>Still shots from that camera are only measured at around 2.96 megapixels, and will look good. They will not look as good as pictures from a 12 megapixel camera.</p> <p>To answer your question, yes it is possible to take still photos from video that you have shot, but as mentioned, it is recommended to get it from progressive footage instead of interlaced.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-info-about-capturing-stills-from-hd-video#post-35864 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:44:10 +0000 sonesta 35864@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thanks, John. I haven't looked into the HD camcorders much yet. I take it that you can set it to tape in progressive mode?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-info-about-capturing-stills-from-hd-video#post-35862 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:28:31 +0000 Johnboy 35862@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>well, you can get better resolution from HDV rather than DV, but that resolution is based on how well your camera is and how you shoot.  you would want to make sure that you are video taping in progressive format to eliminate interlacing.</p> <p>John</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-info-about-capturing-stills-from-hd-video#post-35854 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:49:04 +0000 sonesta 35854@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I have a nice Nikon D50, but you cannot hold and shoot two cameras at once and video is VERY important of the shows.  I'd like to be able to take stills from those videos to use. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-info-about-capturing-stills-from-hd-video#post-35851 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:31:34 +0000 Johnboy 35851@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>why spend money on HD, why not get a decent digital SLR and use the digital picture, no issues with interlacing....</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/need-info-about-capturing-stills-from-hd-video#post-35845 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:17:50 +0000 sonesta 35845@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I breed, train and sell horses.  A good action shot is very important for ads.  I usually try to capture stills of the right moment from my videos. But, of course, quality is not good when capturing from interlaced DV.  Would the captured stills be any better if they were captured from HD video?</p> <p> Trying to decide whether to buy HD camcorder for this purpose.</p>