I’m backing up my photos from a trip to my computer and have just discovered how frustratingly difficult it seems to be to use a computer to make my selection of a single still from the image sequences the Pixel sometimes takes (forget what it calls them).

I know you can you use the photos app but I want to use my computer (a mac). Preview just considers them stills, so it essentially picks one for me (I assume it’s the last still in the sequence), that’s usually what I want but they take up more space and if I can’t choose a different still then it defeats the purpose.

    • jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      10 days ago

      yeh top shot. Though it’s a moot point now because I’ve since discovered Top Shot is not just a burst mode with the images packaged in to one file like I thought.

        • jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          9 days ago

          They could be, but you’ll likely notice they look significantly different and probably worse than the still you would see when examining the photo roll. The reason for this I’ve outlined in an EDIT to my question, but basically it’s recording 1 video and 1 still. If you’re seeing stills from a group belonging to a top shot, it might be that this ente.io is splitting the video in to stills, as Google expects you to do using the photos app which would be fine if video and image stills are the same thing, but video stills are much lower quality than image stills.