canon sx30 is

[stella grecia]

hello friends and merry christmas
I tried to shoot a video at my son's xmas party at school and took some still pictures at the same time
the pixtures are awful........
does anybody have any clue how we can take good pitures while shooting a video????

[SIMON40]

Firstly,whilst using video- any still image will be without a flash. You're also confined to a small resolution image. All exposure parameters are auto- as is the iso setting- and given the indoor scenario you describe, I'm afraid it will be nigh on impossible to capture decent stills whilst shooting video.
Can you not take a still image from the camera after the movie has been shot- in other words,extracting a still frame from the movie..? I may be wrong but I'm sure that is possible on that camera. Of course it won't be of high resolution,but I suspect might have a better exposure than the other alternative.

[stella grecia]

this is what I do
I take captures after filming
but the photos are so bad!!!!!!!
Ok we need to buy a new HD camera then
thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!