capturing stills

mvpvideos2007 wrote on 9/17/2007, 6:24 AM

What is the best way to capture clear stills? I have tried, but get the lines in the capture. I went into properties and selected reduse interlace flicker, which seems to help, but still is not the best. Is there a way to get clean, clear capture images? Thanks:)

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/17/2007, 6:55 AM

if you're using interlaced footage you'll get interlaced lines if there's motion.

Make sure you change the preview to best-full & I used the save icon (the little disk). Basically, to eliminate interlaced lines (if there is any) just cut the image height by 1/2 in your photo program. Yes it's then 1/2 the height but you want to eliminate 1/2 the lines anyway. then re-scale it back to normal.

rmack350 wrote on 9/17/2007, 6:56 AM

I usually step through frames until I find one without movement. Otherwise, I think people recommend changing your project template to Progressive while you're grabbing stills.

I think there is a script out there that will switch to progressive and set the preview to best/full, grab a still, and then restore your settings.

There's also a deinterlace filter in Photoshop. Sometimes I'll just select the areas that show the interlacing and only run the filter on that. Movement will still be blurred but you won't see the interlacing.

Rob Mack

mvpvideos2007 wrote on 9/17/2007, 6:59 AM

Thanks guys!!! I will try your suggestions!!!

MPM wrote on 9/17/2007, 9:55 AM

Depending on your source & what you want to do with the still, V/Dub copies a frame to the clipboard before or after filtering... Pasted into a new image in P/Shop have a bit more qual than jpg or png allows. V/Dub's filters can be tweaked to get rid of any errant interlace artifacts at higher levels of filtering than you'd want for the entire video.