Saving a Snap Shot in VideoStudiox8

[brucet]

I don't use VSx8 very often so each use I'm 'relearning'. I've done this before but the 'how to' is lost in some dark corner of my brain!

I downloaded a Youtube video. MP4. It plays and freezes at a very acceptable quality. However I for the life of me can't get a SnapShot to save at any sort of reasonable quality. All I can do at the moment is do the SnapShot. VSx8 saves it in / - /18.0 folder as a BMP. I can then load that BMP into PSPx8 ok. But the quality is very 'ordinary'.

Question - Is there a way that I can do a SnapShot and save or paste the result directly into PaintShopProx8 at the highest quality possible? (Given the quality restraints of the original video).

regards

[aljimenez]

A video frame snapshot quality depends on the resolution of the video, and on the compression. What is the resolution of the video? Typical compression only has a full frame every so often, frames in between are made up from information of prior and follow on frames. What is the compression of the video?

[brucet]

Er I'm not really sure now what I saved it as. From YouTube I usually save at 360p.

Regardless of resolution, what is the best/easiest way to save a SnapShot as a tiff or jpeg?

regards

[BrianCee]

The easiest way to save it as a jpeg is to change your preferences in Videostudio

inside Videostudio go to "Settings >> Preferences" and under the 'capture' tab change the 'Snapshot format' drop down to JPEG



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[lata]

Hi Bruce

Taking a snapshot can be done in Clip mode or Project mode

Clip mode uses the frame size of the video, and may produce a squashed image depending on the type of video.

Project mode uses the Project Properties frame size and resolution, this produces an image as seen on the preview screen.
If your video is not 16:9 then you will have borders left and right.

Change the project properties to 1920 x 1080, take a shot in “project mode”, that is probably the best you will get, a 1920 x 1080 image.

After taking a snapshot a thumbnail is placed in the library, right click for properties to view the image frame size, compare clip to project snapshot.

If your video is HD 1920 x 1080 then both modes will create the same size.

[aljimenez]

Any frame captured can't be better than the original video resolution. Increasing resolution from original will lower the quality since one is basically adding pixels that were never captured. If the goal is to get the best frame captured, one must capture the video at the highest resolution possible and to use an all I-frame compression and today this can be achieved with 4K with All-I compression on a high-end consumer camera.