Exporting still images

Hi
I need to get some stills from a project that I am editing. I have tried using export, using quick time conversion..., format still image (using default settings), but the imge quality is poor.
Is there a better way to get the images, or do I need to change the settings?
Thanks

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That's a relative quality for stills and, around here, usually indicates the poster does not understand video.
Assuming you understand the technical and qualitative differences between interlaced and progressive frames, your stills from video will never be any better than the pixel density of your video camera unless you post process them in another application.
My Sony DV shoots 720x480 pixels. My Nikon D2 shoots about 4000x3000 pixels. That's a big difference.
You can make the pixels from video bigger by scaling up but you can't easily create more of them without knowing how to do so in, say, Photoshop.
bogiesan

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