hemi4x4

Was wondering what is the best way/program to get pictures from my videos? I've been successful in getting pictures from WMP and Virtual Dub but am not impressed with the quality. Am I stuck here or does anyone know of a better way? I can record video at 640x480 with 30 fps so I hoped I could get some decent pictures from it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

moogly

I have grabed stills from video also but there not that great because video cameras are usually only at around .3-.6 meg pixals where a real still camera is @ 1.3 - 8 meg
so you don't get the best quality one I have found is to deinterlace the picture (frame) ether pick or or even and that will get rid of the lines if you don't already do that
and I dont what software you'r useing I usually use my Mac so if you on a PC see if your software will let you deinterlace the frame it helps but its not perfect

headhunter23

Pretty much as moogly stated, taking a still from a video will always look like garbage compared to a photograph. It's merely the way it works, video's don't need as much information per frame as compared to a photo.

Ivan.

*You would expect to get more replys by now, is this part of the forum dead?

wjglynn

Full motion video is captured at roughly 30 frames per second. That means that each frame represents 1/30th of a second. That is an incredibly slow shutterspeed when it comes to still images, hence the less than desired detail. So even if it is captured as high definition digital video a frame from a movie will never compare to a properly exposed still image.

Bill