Re: Matching profile of image with a QuickTime movie frame?
Re: Matching profile of image with a QuickTime movie frame?
- Subject: Re: Matching profile of image with a QuickTime movie frame?
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 00:23:01 +0000
On 1 Jan 2010, at 16:31, Dan Wood wrote:
> It sounds like there is just no official way to do this. I'll file a couple of bugs, then: one that QuickTime player 7, in its capacity to copy out a frame of a movie, leaves the image on the clipboard without a profile that can't be matched to what is on the screen, and another that QuickTime Player X doesn't have a faQcilility to export the current frame to an image at all!
I don't think that Apple would accept these as "bugs" -- they are better described as missing features or lacking/inadequate features :(
The 10.6 QuickTime Player looks very pretty but has a tiny fraction of the features and scriptability found in QuickTime Player 7.
The "profiling" in the 10.6 QuickTime Player isn't at all what you'd expect if you are interested in colour management either. You can apply profiles via Automator, but you have only get three choices: SD, PAL & HD and all you can do is *apply* one of these profiles -- you can't convert.
So copying from QTP7 and then pasting to Photoshop might be the easiest way of working and it would be easy to automate because Photoshop will automatically create a new document which is the same size as the clipboard content.
However, as Steve Upton mentioned in an earlier post, you must use a display profile that has a gamma of 1.8 and set Photoshop to use the same profile as its working space or convert the new document to use the display profile before pasting the clipboard content.
Alternatively you could use a free player like VLC which, unlike QuickTime Player, offers a snapshot feature and doesn't have a gamma problem so you only need assign the monitor profile in Photoshop (or use AppleScript).
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Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd
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