Still Capture

OhMyGosh wrote on 5/22/2009, 10:52 PM
Damn I'm ticked! I'm having some sort of brain fade and I'm needing some help please :O Yes, I'm on 'best', 'full', .jpg, last frame. HD 1440x1080i I'm zoomed in on her eye with track motion, I then capture, insert to 'freeze' that frame, and the captured frame makes her eye look about 10% smaller than the original clip of video I just captured it from! It seems like the keyframes in track motion are some how goofing something up, but I'm on the last frame???????
As a side note, the interlace lines look like garbage in the still. Will the TV fix that, or should I just use the deinterlace filter in PS and do it that way, as opposed to changing the setting in the project back and forth to and from progressive/interlaced? Thanks. Cin :/ PS. If this doesn't make sense, sorry. It's late, I'm tired, frustrated, and been messing with this way too long.

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Ivan Lietaert wrote on 5/23/2009, 3:03 AM
You could zoom in to the still for 10%, not?
OhMyGosh wrote on 5/23/2009, 7:13 AM
Yeah, I could do that Ivan, but one and most importantly, I hate not understanding what's going on, and two I think it would be really hard to get it exactly the same so you don't see a small glitch or flicker when it goes from the video to the still. Thank you as always for your help and input. Cin

Note: I tried to match the size, and as I thought, I just can't get it exact and you see a glitch there. The new thing I noticed was that if I capture the still in 'Preview' 'Auto' it works fine, but what would that look like in the final rendered project??? (MPEG2 DVD).
Ivan Lietaert wrote on 5/23/2009, 7:32 AM
For an exact match, can't you go by the 'numbers' ('width' and 'heighth' in pixels in the pan/crop screen) instead of the 'naked eye'? Btw, what do the 'numbers' reveil about the anomaly anyhow?
ritsmer wrote on 5/23/2009, 8:25 AM
Hi OhMy.
Long go...

You wrote "what would that look like" - well try it: just select that small piece of the timeline and then do preview in player with the same settings as you render to.
Normally a saved still with Best/Full fits in 95 percent - but I also have seen examples where this was not so.
In that case I normally try to cut-to-still some frames to the right or left and after a couple of trials one gets a good result.
Especially the interlaced media can take a little time to iron out - and you might have to play a little with the i/p settings, as you write, if you are trying to cut-to-still in the middle of a movement.
Chienworks wrote on 5/23/2009, 10:48 AM
Just a thought, but are you putting the still back on the same track that you captured the frame from? If so, Track Motion is now affecting that still twice! Once when it was captured and put in the still image file, and once again on the still image file now that it's on that track with Track Motion still applied.
OhMyGosh wrote on 5/23/2009, 4:56 PM
Thank you Ivan. I did try putting in just the numbers, but because something isn't sizing right to begin with, when I did that it wasn't even close :/ Ritsmer, I have 'you might have to play a little ' played until I'm ready to scream :O, but that is what I have done and continue to do, and is what makes us better :) Kelly, I thought that had to be the answer after I tried the other two suggestions..........but no dice! Here is my fix, even though I don't understand how it worked. It was a photo with some effects from PS. My guess is VMS couldn't understand something even though I saved it as a .JPEG. Sooooooo
I threw out all my beautiful work (if I may say so myself), and went with the stock photo, and it worked perfect just like it always has. I'm just mad for all the wasted hours, and no definative answer as to why it wouldn't work before as was....