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Encyclopedia > Still image

A still image is a single static image, as distinguished from a moving image (i.e. a movie). This phrase is used in photography, visual media and the computer industry to emphasize that one is not talking about movies, or in very precise or pedantic technical writing such as a standard. For movies, see Film. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film &#8212; also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, &#8212; is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film &#8212; also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, &#8212; is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as... HAHA, Ive deleted all KISS MY ASS>< ... Computer industry is a collective term used to describe the whole range of businesses involved in developing computer software, designing computer hardware, the manufacture of computer components and the provision of information technology services. ... The word standard has several meanings: Originally, standard referred to a conspicuous object used as a rallying point in battle. ...


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Camille Paglia Magic of Images (5315 words)
But those of us who were in love with the dazzling, darting images of TV and movies, as well as with the surging rhythms of new rock music, had been given through public education a firm foundation in the word and the book.
Images from the Middle Ages, aside from elegant French Madonnas and Notre Dame's gargoyles and flying buttresses, have proved less successful in my experience than the frankly carnal images of the Italian Renaissance.
The banning of images in Byzantium lasted, with several breaks, for over a century until the restoration of the icons in 843, after the death of the last iconoclast emperor, Theophilos, the prior year.
Ulead Learning Center - General Video Info - Still Images (1046 words)
You can grab still images from video, as mentioned in the Frames and Fields article, but this page is about the opposite: incorporating existing still photos into a video.
The resolution of a video picture is much lower than a still image, so achieving the finest possible resolution in your image files is not necessarily important (but see Moving over the image below).
When a still image with square pixels is incorporated the different pixel shape must be allowed for, otherwise the image will be distorted the opposite way when shown on a TV.
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