The following image files are a side by side comparison of the Star Trek stills made by Tisha Turk from ripped DVD footage (shown at the June 4, 2012 hearing at the Library of Congress in Washington DC) with stills provided to us by the DVD CCA on July 25, 2012 made from screencaptured footage. The screencaptured stills were provided to the Library of Congress to support the argument that screencaptured footage is adequate for vidders and noncommercial remixers. We believe that the below side by side comparison shows that they are not.
While the stills taken from the DVD CCA’s .mpg are not as pixellated as those taken from the .avi Tisha Turk made (see our previous Image Gallery), they have other problems; note the lack of detail, the blurriness, the washed-out color, and the incorrect aspect ratio. But even if the stills were of excellent quality, the file that they are taken from is still an MPEG file not meant for editing; that is, the screencapturing process that produced the captured stills below produces a file that is not suitable for video editing.
Image A: Captain Robau of the USS Kelvin: top image captured by the DVD CCA, lower image ripped.
Image B: Captain Robau of the USS Kelvin as seen after a flash of bright light; top image captured by DVD CCA, lower image ripped.
Image C: Captain Robau, cropped and resized. Top image capture by DVD CCA, lower image ripped.
Image D: The Narada; top image captured by DVD CCA, lower image ripped.
Image E: Panning past Kirk Senior; top image captured by DVD CCA, lower image ripped.
Image F: Missiles fire during the battle; top image captured by DVD CCA, lower image ripped.
Image G: The USS Kelvin takes fire; top image captured by DVD CCA, lower image ripped.
Image H: The Kelvin’s helmsman reacts (first shot); top image captured by DVD CCA, lower image ripped.
Image I:The Kelvin’s helmsman reacts (second shot); top image captured by DVD CCA, lower image ripped.
