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Ever wonder if the great footage you captured with your camcorder could be turned into photos for your album, or even framed? It can! With the newest digital accessories for your computer, or a video printer, you can capture stills from video and print them at home for much less than you think. Here are some tips on how to turn your video footage into photos, and how to improve image quality of your original footage.
A video camcorder records an amazing number of potential stills every time you push the record button. There are thirty frames of video per second, and each one of these frames is made up of two field images containing half the resolution of a full frame. If you have a good camcorder or VCR with freeze frame or jitter-free pause mode, you can stop the tape wherever you want, set up a camera, and take pictures off your TV screen. But that's really the hard way to get photos from video. The easiest way is to connect your camcorder or VCR directly to a...