Hi Guys, does anyone know if it's possible to extract good quality photos from video footage? I'm trying to decide whether to go for a photo or video package for an upcoming trip to Telos. My thinking was that if its possible to get decent photos out of video footage there would be no point getting a photo package.

and if you pause VCR tapes too much it stretches.
Blokes who were teenagers in the 80's will understand.

mitchbat said..

Hi Guys, does anyone know if it's possible to extract good quality photos from video footage? I'm trying to decide whether to go for a photo or video package for an upcoming trip to Telos. My thinking was that if its possible to get decent photos out of video footage there would be no point getting a photo package.

no you can't. best for this is GoPro at hi-qual, but still not great.
my meagre understanding says that most formats use interleaving and interpolation such that no single frame is ever good nor complete.

still, some softwares are less bad than others - best utility by far for freezing most AVIs is VirtualDub.

i do screen shots off my contour and they usually turn out ok but only in good light. still a tad grainy though.

saltiest1 said..
i do screen shots off my contour and they usually turn out ok but only in good light. still a tad grainy though.

The photos you clip from videos are of a similar quality to the old fixed focus point and shoot box brownie cameras, or worse.
If there is any movement in the frame then the quality is progressively worse, depending on the speed of movement.
Even in the pic posted above you can see from the sign on the side of the basket, it is so blurry as to be unreadable.
A picture like that taken with a real camera should be sharp as a tack.

The pics are better than nothing if you haven't got anything else but only just.

go pro,
while taking a movie press the "mode" button and it takes a still as well.
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