Capturing High Res Snapshots in Vegas

PAULBROWNAP63 wrote on 10/1/2006, 1:59 PM
Hoping there is some way of Capturing a Snapshot in Vegas and turning that into a High Res Photo.

i.e. I just stumbled upon the perfect cover for a Live DVD I'm putting together as i was editing my video. Now if I could only capture a snap shot of the Edit in Hi Res or somehow turn this into a High Re Photo.

Thanks a Million!

Paul

Comments

Jøran Toresen wrote on 10/1/2006, 4:08 PM
I use Topaz Moment V3.1 when I want to capture still images from my DV footage. It’s an excellent program and you can download a trial from:

http://www.topazlabs.com/

Best wishes,
Joran
Serena wrote on 10/1/2006, 9:39 PM
The captured still is limited to the information available in the video. You can capture a frame at max resolution by selecting "Full Best" in the preview window, but turning a DV frame into high res is going to need a bit of magic. HDV does reasonably (about 1.5M pixels), but DV is about 0.3M pixels. I believe that PhotoShop can do some upres by interpolation, but this doesn't increase the information available (just reduces pixelation). Have you considered making the cover a montage of frame grabs? Can be very effective.
Laurence wrote on 10/1/2006, 10:29 PM
I've gotten good results a couple of ways. Topaz Moment is pretty cool because it uses a number of concurrent frames and motion blur in addition to resizing in order to create a bigger picture that has minimal noise and jagged edges. The latest version of Topaz Moment is especially cool as it is based on Media Player Classic and is pretty much Media Player Classic with the added concurrent frame/motion blur capture added. Great styff.

I also use a script to deinterlace and increase preview resolution on capture. Another way is to capture in Vegas, reduce to half the height in Photoshop and resize in Photozoom Pro, doubling the height along the way. That looks really good as well.
farss wrote on 10/1/2006, 10:32 PM
Another trick that can sometimes help is to dial in some Motion Blur on the Video Bus. Certainly what Topaz seems to be doing is very cool. A video image that has a slight amount of motion is higher res than each individual frame.

Bob.