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ankur.vatsa
Hi All,
I bought a handycam. The bad thing to happen was that I had enough money to buy a handycam or a digital camera. So now there are a few points on which any suggestion is welcome:

1. Now that I have a handycam, I am wondering if I can create stills from the videos I have recorded. I have been able to connect the handycam to my laptop and copy the videos to my hard-disk.

2. Is there a software available which can do such a job for me? If the software is a free and open-sourced one that'll be great, as I've spent all my money getting the handycam.

3. Assuming that stills can be captured from videos on my hard-disk. What quality of photograph-prints can be expected?

Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
TomS
Almost every Videoeditprogramm can make screenshots from your videos.
I think you have one, because you got the films on harddisk.
The quality is as good as the video quality.
MPG2 eg. has less than 800x600 px.
varun_dodla
ankur.vatsa wrote:
Hi All,
I bought a handycam. The bad thing to happen was that I had enough money to buy a handycam or a digital camera. So now there are a few points on which any suggestion is welcome:

1. Now that I have a handycam, I am wondering if I can create stills from the videos I have recorded. I have been able to connect the handycam to my laptop and copy the videos to my hard-disk.

2. Is there a software available which can do such a job for me? If the software is a free and open-sourced one that'll be great, as I've spent all my money getting the handycam.

3. Assuming that stills can be captured from videos on my hard-disk. What quality of photograph-prints can be expected?

Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,



Let us answer them one by one...

1. Yes you can definitely create stills from your videos. And its very easy tooo.

2. There are free video editing softwares and even video players with screen capture facility which allow you to save frames u choose in image formats as jpeg. The best one i can suggest is Windows Movie Maker...it come free with windows XP and has the above feature to capture frames and save as images.

3. The quality as TomS had mentioned will depend on the quality of your video.

Hope this helps.
lukeropro
Yep, windows movie maker works if you don't want to download another program. It's not open source though...
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