Stills from Video on Cybershot HX20V or others

[adameakin]

Hi can you extract stills at high res from a video after it has been taken from the cybershot HX20V or similar? also does the photoburst take continuous stills until the card is full?

[Mick2011]

Hi adameakin, welcome to the Sony Forums

The HX20V will shoot a maximum of 10 frames, either at 'hi' (10 frames @ 10fps) or 'lo' (10 frames @ 2fps) setting in Burst Mode.

HD video frames are roughly 2MP (1920x1080 pixels) – quite a bit lower than the maximum-size still image of around 4900x3600, and there's no way of 'making up' those missing pixels without degrading image quality.

The restriction you allude to is buffer size – temporary memory space used by the camera as it writes to the card – so while HD movie-size frames will theoretically record until the card fills up, 18MP frames fill the buffer way too quickly for sustained recording.

However it is possible to shoot hi-res stills while you're recording a movie, using the pretty cool Dual Rec facility

Cheers

Mick