Video Screenshot resolution

unwashed potato! · 30 May 2006 at 21:39

dont know where to put this so i just firugerd in the picture place will be best

Basically im going to be redecoration my room and one of the things i want on my wall is 10x8 pictures of scenes in films of celebritys and there signature on them, only problem im having is i can't get the exact pictures i want with the size i want so i thought maybe if i just put on the film on my pc and watch it then just take a screenshot of the picture i want and print it off

My questions about this are:

1. will the quality of the screenshot picture be of high photo quliaty, my screen is the viesonic 2025 (widescreen 20.1") if that helps?

2. Will the size be 10x8?

and
3. Is there another way instead of sceenshoting to get what i want, e.g. take a photo of the film etc.

sos for the terible spelling, im very ill atm

Sirrel Squirrel · 30 May 2006 at 22:48

If you take a screenshot of a film the resolution will only be 720pxx576px, which you would have to stretch quite a bit to get onto 10x8 so I don't think it'd look that good really

Sic · 31 May 2006 at 08:48

i always find that screenshots of films aren't great. if you set your sights a bit lower on the dimensions front, maybe 8x6 or something, you should get a pretty decent quality shot. bump your screen res up, and use VLC (i get the best quality screenies from that). i take it you're going to be framing them as well?

Augmented · 31 May 2006 at 10:01

Video resolution is pretty low, but it's not that important until you actually have to output it to something where resolution matters (like printing). So you need to work out what you're going to be printing at .

Printing a 10x8"@300DPI would require an image of 3000x2400px to avoid resampling and a 10x8"@100DPI would require an image of 1000x800px. Resampling the video grab for 300DPI printing isn't going to work particularly well, as every pixel is going to have to be resampled/combined to fit over 4 pixels. Standard video at 720x576 is going to output an image of 2.5x2" at 300DPI and 7.2x5.7"@100DPI without any scaling involved.

Try it out, but don't expect high-quality results. Try and scour the web for press/promo shots from films (you can often get them from movie-release sites) that were taken on set - these will usually be a much more acceptable size for getting high quality prints.

http://home.earthlink.net/~terryleedawson/dcnotes/printing.htm

Disclaimer: Attempting to understand the interaction of resolutions across media makes my head hurt, so I'm happy to be corrected!