Confused on what is really a vid cap! (Cleo)

[Cleo]

Yeah those are vic caps too.

What happens is frames from video are often blurry but because we are seeing many per second we see them as in focus but when we try to use just single frames as pics they look like crap.

When we shoot stuff for FoxyAngel we actually shoot with both a still camera and a video camera taking turns at which camera we shoot with. Either that or do all the scenes twice. It is a lot more work but the only way to get quality stills.

[plateman]

I can say that I list vid caps but only from very long time submitters and they must look good... also whenever a why didnt my site get listed because of vid caps and you look at a few and say dam those look good to list BUT look at a few more and the blurs stick out like a sore peter...

[juggernaut]

Originally Posted by Cleo

Yeah those are vic caps too.

What happens is frames from video are often blurry but because we are seeing many per second we see them as in focus but when we try to use just single frames as pics they look like crap.

When we shoot stuff for FoxyAngel we actually shoot with both a still camera and a video camera taking turns at which camera we shoot with. Either that or do all the scenes twice. It is a lot more work but the only way to get quality stills.

When I used to work in the photo world. I was taking some of the vids from pleasure productions (if anyone remembers them ie "girls will be boys" hum circa early 90's) anyway they paid us big bucks back then to get quality material for their remaning image spots for their boxes. The covers were always done in major shoots. $10 per slide, color corrected and matched in density. Mostly done by hand, eye and machine for the computing important stuff. They were sending us 500 to 1000 slides minium. I don't think you can ever get that good with the standard home computer.