Sony CCD-TRV608 Handbuch

Still Picture Capture Settings

Captured still images

 can be altered to increase their suitability for use on your 

PC. 

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Movie scenes captured from digital cameras are rewritten to your hard drive 

at a rate of one every 1/30 second. However, the individual frames (from 

which you would capture a still picture) are not completely rewritten at this 

rate. Rather, rewriting is performed at the rate of one "half-frame" (half the 

number of horizontal lines or "pixels") every 1/60 second. When a computer 

is used to capture still pictures from movie scenes, some blurring may occur 

between the two halves of the one frame being captured, especially when 

the subject in the movie scene is moving relatively quickly. Interlacing 

eliminates this blur and produces a better quality still picture. In this 

process, however, one half of a frame is essentially preserved to "fix," or 

"support," the other half, thereby lowering the resolution. Therefore, we 

recommend you leave this box unchecked unless you plan to capture still 

pictures from "fast action" movie scenes, such as those taken of sporting 

events, etc.

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If your digital video camera uses the NTSC format (standard in the United 

States, Canada, Japan, and elsewhere) the resolution of still picture files will 

be 720 x 480 pixels, which is most likely slightly longer horizontally than the 

display of your computer. When you display these still pictures on your PC 

monitor, the width will be elongated when compared to its appearance on a 

standard-sized TV. Locking the aspect ratio, however, will compensate by 

reducing the image to 720 x 640 pixels, thereby preserving the originally 

intended size of the image. 

If your digital video camera uses the PAL format (standard to Australia, New 

Zealand, many European nations, and elsewhere), the resolution of still 

picture files will be 720 x 576 pixels, which is most likely slightly longer 

vertically than the display of your computer. If you preserve the originally 

intended size of the image by locking the aspect ratio, the 576 pixels will be 

reduced to 540, however, the resolution of image will also slightly decrease.

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Excess or unwanted portions around the edges of the image can be cut off. 

This is referred to as "cropping." Here you can enter the number of pixels 

you wish to have cut off from the edge of the image.

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