Is There A Difference Between Using HD to Make a Video and Taking Pictures?

[Te-Erika]

It seems that whenever I have my digital camera Nikon Coolpix S3500 set to HD recording and I am filming an event and want to snap a few pictures as well, the pictures come out blurry, at least in low lighting. Do I need to change the setting from HD when I want to take snapshots in the midst of filming? What do I change it to?

 

[Andrew Flint]

In post production (editing) most editing softwares are able to take a snapshot of the frame you're looking at, so if you find the frame of something you wanted a picture of you will be able to save that as a .JPEG and you can flick through multiple frames until you get a nice clear one if weren't focused all the time.

 

[Te-Erika]

Yes. You're right. But I find that taking a screen shot versus an actual snapshot, the quality is better with the bigger snapshot than a little screen shot. But You're so right, I should just keep recording video. But then it seems like twice the work when sometimes I just want pictures to play in my vids along with music.

 

[Andrew Flint]

Yes. You're right. But I find that taking a screen shot versus an actual snapshot, the quality is better with the bigger snapshot than a little screen shot. But You're so right, I should just keep recording video. But then it seems like twice the work when sometimes I just want pictures to play in my vids along with music.

If you've got a HD camera and you're uploading in HD then taking a snapshot out of the video will be the same quality as you're upload quality anyways so you shouldn't see a difference.

And if you just want a video made of 100% pictures then there is no point filming the stuff anyways. If you want a successful youtube channel sometimes you have to put in twice the work I'm afraid.