Delirium wrote:
While I don't doubt film companies have some nefarious motives, in
this case they might also be looking to maximize how good they
look---high-quality still photographs look much better than
framegrabs, and so make the movie look better. That's partly due to
higher resolution and such, but also because framegrabs are part of a
film that was exposed/colorbalanced/etc. with the moving sequence of
frames in mind---the individual frame wasn't exposed and
color-balanced in such a way that would make it look optimal on its own.
I have no problem with that - we use framegrabs, and if the studios mind
that, we will be happy to use all stills they release under GFDL or put
in the PD instead :-)
Magnus