Post production is an important element in your filmmaking and oftentimes you will be required to get still grabs from your footage. These can be used in the film itself or for film jackets, but are also required when you are submitting films to festivals, or communicating to others online via blogs and other websites.
Imagine for example that you are filming a concert and you’ve got some great footage but you’d like a still image. Of course you can get a simple still grab from the video but the quality of the image will probably be very poor and will contain a lot of noise.
High-contrasting light conditions can make still grabs like this even worse. Now you have a solution to this problem with HDRinstant.
Using HDRinstant’s patent-pending technology, videographers can transform a scene containing high-contrasting light into a stunning image. This is accomplished by using the neighboring frames of a selected frame in a video to create one single image.
Standard Grab from Go Pro
An HDRinstant grab
Simply choose your favorite frame from your video. HDRinstant stacks the neighboring frames of the favorite one to increase signal to noise ratio (which reduces noise) thereby increasing dynamic range. This is quite simple to understand because image stacking is the equivalent to a long exposure. In this way the final image contains less noise and more detail. HDRinstant also applies a morphing algorithm to the image to remove movement between the stacked frames. This allows you to choose your favorite part of the video and create a great still with it.
It also works in difficult light conditions.
Here is a single frame grab.
Standard Frame Grab At Low Light
HDRInstant frame grab at Low Light.
HDRinstant is a standalone program for Windows and Mac and is currently available to students with a 60% discount.
For more information visit http://hdrinstant.com
To obtain a 60% student discount send an email to edu@hdrlog.com
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