Helium Frog stores all the frames by default in a motion jpeg file (.avi file) in the captured frames directory. If you want to work with separate frames, check the options boxes in the settings window and it will also output tiff, jpeg, bmp or png as you capture each frame as well as the .avi file 

There is also a function in the utilities window where you can separate the .avi file into individual jpeg frames should you wish at any time.

tiff ,bmp and png will give the best quality as they are lossless formats. Png is a smaller file, but not always recognised by some software. The problem is that they are large files and will eat hard disk drive space and playback in some editors may be slower.

My choice would be to use a high resolution jpeg as the files are small and you will have difficulty in spotting the quality difference between that and a png file. You can set the .avi jpeg stored quality and the individual frame jpeg quality from the settings window. I would work only with the .avi file and you can use the inbuilt editor to move the frames around as you want. The quality will not degrade as you do this. If you then want individual frames, just use the utilities function to separate them out to single frames.

The only thing you must be aware of with lossless formats is that if you compress the frames to an avi, then decompress, then compress them again many times the quality will gradually deteriorate (This is why they are called lossy formats).

Last edited by martinprice2004 (January 30, 2010 (01:36pm))