taking pictures in movie maker

Question：i edit videos and take still photos from these videos for customers.  does windows movie maker allow for great resolution pictures i can save to cd?  the ones i take on wmm are terrible...

Answer 1：Hello jumpshak,

 Thank you for using Microsoft Windows Vista Forums.

Are you losing any quality on Movies you create with Windows Movie Maker?  Have you tried to use Windows Photo Gallery to add pictures to a disk?  If so are you experiencing the same issue with quality?  Are all the pictures quality diminished when using Windows Movie Maker or just some?  Have you always experienced this problem in Windows Movie Maker with pictures?  Please let us know status!

Picture files: .bmp, .dib, .emf, .gif, .jfif, .jpe, .jpeg, .jpg, .png, .tif, .tiff, and .wmf  are all used with Windows Movie Maker and the resolution should be the same in Windows Movie Maker.

Import video files, pictures, and audio into Windows Movie Maker
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/26255f6c-daf5-4923-8559-be7b2399d7f91033.mspx

Windows Vista: Pictures and video
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/pictures.mspx

 
 

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James

Answer 2：

This may work:
1. Open the video in Windows Media Player.
2. Plause the video at the picture that you want.
2. Use the Snipping Toiol to copy the image.
3. Save as a JPEG file in a picture folder.
4. Use Windows Photo Gallery to select and burn the pictures onto a CD.
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Answer 3：I use XP SP2 Microsoft Movie Maker version 5.1 (from About  Movie Maker, also listed is: Movie Maker 2.1.4026.0) to take pictures from the preview window.  When I open the pictures and view their properties in Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 the image resolution is always 96 pixels per inch, the image size 3.333 inches by 2.5 inches, or 320 pixels by 240 pixels.  I always use DV capture for the best quality video, but these default image settings are really poor.  Is there a way to change these settings in Movie Maker, or otherwise?  I'd like to have them at the highest resolution possible, which i imagine is predetermined by the resolution of the captured video, which is 720 by 480 for my current DV captured video.