The Snapshots.zip posted earlier show the PD17 Media Library video snapshot button captures were the poorest when compared to those of PhD10 and VLC. The square pixels appear to be double in size indicating it is 1920 x 1080 scaled up to 3840 x 2160. There is a loss in resolution.
Conducted tests using PowerDirector previous versions 12 and 14, PhotoDirector 10, and VLC. Surprise! PD17 Freeze Frame are indeed full resolution unlike that found in the PD17 Media Library using the snapshot button. See the attached marked up screenshot for the comparison.
The UHD video used in this comparison is “4K Chimei inn (60mbps)” from this website: https://4ksamples.com/4k-chimei-inn-60mbps/ . This is an avc encoded video that works with the earlier versions of PD. Screenshots were taken at 38 sec. !6 frames in the video on each software.
Software----Size--------How Taken
PD12………9.15 MB….….Timeline Snapshot button
PD14………9.15 MB……..Timeline Snapshot button
PD17………9.15 MB……..Timeline Freeze Frame
PD17………3.77 MB………Media Library Snapshot button….(The Worst)
PhD10…….7.35 MB………Snapshot button
VLC…………6.66 MB…..….Snapshot
It is interesting that the PD12, Pd14, and the PD17 Freeze Frame captures are all the same file size of 9.15 MB. The comparison show that a PD17 user does not have to go elsewhere to obtain good 4k snapshots from videos.
Filename | 4k Compare.jpg |
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Description | PD Snapshot Magnified Compaison |
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621 Kbytes
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