Box scans from Youtube videos?

[KaiserWAVE]

Hey all, a few days back someone here mentioned it was possible to get box scans from a youtube video. Unfortunately I don't know who it was and searching for it didn't get me any results so I started this thread.
I need covers for the Rushing Beat series and I found a video where someone reviews the games and shows the boxes. Is it possible to get usable images off that video or is that just one of my pipe dreams?

The video is here:
http://www.gamedebate.net/?p=245

[ShoothimNow]

  I was looking for the colored spines on N64 cases as I cannot find them elsewhere

[Doom]

I'm on wifi right now, so I didn't have the patience to load that full video. Chances are this is not possible, but it depends on the lighting and video quality. If the person who made the video still has the original unedited cut, you could take frames from that video. The problem is even that is not very high resolution.

[ShoothimNow]

That maybe so, but from the Oot unboxing video that I found, I was able to find a high res picture that was the same as the red flap that I needed to find.  Worked perfectly.  Instead of not knowing what the box looks like, the video gives a good heads up on what you need to look for

[BadChad]

Like I said before, you might even have a better chance getting usable scans by sending an email to who ever uplaoded the video asking for scans.

[tiktektak]

Hm I don't really get it. How can you get a high res picture from a low res youtube video? Even the HD ones just have 720p which means a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. A 300dpi scan has a resolution of 3366 x 2100 in an UGC so that is almost triple the resolution right?

[shenske]

Hm I don't really get it. How can you get a high res picture from a low res youtube video? Even the HD ones just have 720p which means a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. A 300dpi scan has a resolution of 3366 x 2100 in an UGC so that is almost triple the resolution right?

I think he means that you can see what the side labels look like. Once you have an image (even a low rez one) from the video you know what artwork to look for on the net. I don't think he actually means using a screen-capture from the youtube video.  Or maybe he means its a good way to find people who have the boxes and request them to scan it?

[ShoothimNow]

To clear up some confusion.

I found a youtube video that was about "Unboxing N64 Zelda Ocarina of Time".  After watching 3 minutes of the video, he finally showed the side of it


Because it is extremely hard to find the extra flaps, Youtube helped with a 1.5 second glimpse of the shot I was in search of -



After I knew what I was looking for, I could easily search google for "bow and arrow the legend of zelda ocarina of time" and found this picture



Took a little while to match up color contrasts, and this is the finished product for my Zelda Oot Minicase

[BadChad]

Nicely done dude. Thats beeing resourceful!

[KaiserWAVE]

Yeah, that was very MacGyver-ish

[tiktektak]

Jup excellent work!

[Drakul]

Elementary!