4k Screen Shot for Printing

[Sarah Nelson]

Hi...
I am trying to take a still from my 4k footage to print and frame at 24 x 30 in. In RedCine, I set my project to the 4k 2:1 (4096x2048) and set the output settings to Tiff, 32 bit. It shrunk it on the viewer so I set the shot settings to "fit to height", which brought it back up to full screen. This tried to export every frame as a Tiff, so I set the in/out brackets to get a single frame.
This worked and gave me a 120 mb file, but it's kind of small and doesn't blow up very well. I know screen shots from the Red guys have been printed out fairly big so I'm wondering what I did wrong or if there is another way to get a better tiff/jpeg to print out. Thanks!!!

 

[Kenn Michael]

Use RedAlert to output 4K TIFFs not RedCine.

 

[jbeale]

One single full-frame 16-bit, 4k 2:1 TIFF from Red should be 48.0 MB. If it is not 48 MB something is wrong, you're getting multiple frames or interpolation or just garbage.

I believe Redcine can give you all the resolution there is in the original R3D file. The easiest way to export a single TIFF frame from Redcine is to use the button on the right of the top menu bar, labelled "Snap Shot". It writes a TIFF in your designated still frame output directory. If you're new to Redcine, note that this menu bar starts out hidden until you "swipe" the mouse cursor up to the top of the window and back.