some assignments lend themselves to video better then others. whether because of audio or motion, but i still need to come up with a shot for the paper. meaning i would normally have to carry a tripod, a camera bag and three cameras; the video camera around my neck, a still body (one with a long lens and one with a wide lens) over each shoulder and the camera bag hanging... somewhere!
so, i took a chance last weekend and shot an assignment strictly on video with the intention of taking a freeze frame grab for print.
i learned a valuable lesson on saturday... always test any software you may update!!! let me repeat, test your software after an update!!!
seems that final cut express 4.0.1 doesnt export the frame grabs the same way as 4.0 did. and after trying to figure it out for several hours with the help of my tech savvy coworkers, we were still stumped!
so this is what happened;
it squooshed um! and the size was reduced! making it about half the size we usually use for the paper.
i was able to utilize photoshop to unsquish um but i still dont think they looked 100%.
so i'm getting our i.t. guy to uninstall the update and then reinstall the old version! arrrghhh!
scotties are rather cute squished though, dont you think?
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