I'd aim for the output to be 800 by 600 at most. If it looks fuzzy and soft at that many pixels, try rescanning. If you reduce 800 by 600 to 400 by 300 then you'll find it looks a lot sharper and clearer. Video grabbing Another way to get pictures is to use your camcorder. If you're a video enthusiast who makes their own videos, you might have an S-VHS recorder.
Television broadcasts are a bit better than high-band.
If you're using Digital Video or high-band, you can get 640 by 480. Some high quality VCRs let you pause without noise, and then grab from that. All Digital Video cameras and recorders let you freeze a frame without noise which you can then grab. If your equipment doesn't let you freeze a frame without lots of video noise, you're out of luck, and you'll just have to time your grab carefully. The simplest way to turn a tape from your camcorder into a series of pictures, is to send it to me.