Why images/pics are pixilated?

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Kugar13
Apr 12, 2007
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I am using screen captures from my DVX-100a (24 fps camera) as pictures for a project I am working on. I don’t understand why the pics look pixelated when expanded to 1/4" the size (or larger) of my monitor. These are Tiff files (not compressed when saved, no degrade in quality). The DVX-100a shoots fantastic footage. The images look great when projected on a movie screen, which is huge compared to my computer monitor, but why do they look bad in photoshop?

Thank you for your thoughts!
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Bernie
Apr 12, 2007
What is the size of these images (in pixels)?
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Bob Levine
Apr 12, 2007
And what percentage are you viewing at?

Bob
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John_R_Nielsen
Apr 12, 2007
Are you resizing the images, or just zooming in? What are the pixel dimensions of your images?
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Kugar13
Apr 12, 2007
All great questions I wish I currently had the answers to! Sorry guys, I’m at work and won’t be able to answer most of those questions until I get home.

I do know the pic looked pixelated when I expanded (dragged the boarder to make the size of the picture larger/smaller) the pic. I don’t think zooming in made a difference on the quality of the pic.

If I’m not mistaken the DVX100a (my camcorder) shoots in: 720×576

Horizontal Resolution: 490 lines

Oh, btw the pics didn’t look pixelated when I got them to the size I wanted, but they shouldn’t look pixelated (unless I did something wrong) when I expanded them to 1/4th-1/2 the size of the screen…. .I say/assume this b/c they are great when played on tv (as footage).

Thanks for the help guys. I’ll get more info to you asap!
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Jim
Apr 12, 2007
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I am using screen captures from my DVX-100a (24 fps camera) as pictures for a project I am working on. I don’t understand why the pics look pixelated when expanded to 1/4" the size (or larger) of my monitor. These are Tiff files (not compressed when saved, no degrade in quality). The DVX-100a shoots fantastic footage. The images look great when projected on a movie screen, which is huge compared to my computer monitor, but why do they look bad in photoshop?

Thank you for your thoughts!
You are much closer to the screen image that to the projected image. Hence, any pixelation is much more obvious on the monitor than on the movie screen.

Jim
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Bernie
Apr 12, 2007
I say/assume this b/c they are great when played on tv (as footage).

Motion forgives a lot more than still images
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Kugar13
Apr 12, 2007
OH, I didn’t realize that! Makes sense…
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r_harvey0
Apr 12, 2007
Please don’t delete this post!

I don’t use this account much, but according to this thread <http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc3a044/0>, if you don’t post, you will lose your account.

Off-topic… but this thread was settled happily, anyway.

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