• Adobe After Effects

  In Trouble: Premier making AE footage jagged

  Posted by Mark Landsburger on July 21, 2005 at 12:58 am

  Hi all,

  I’m in a real time crunch and have just discovered that Premier is lowering the quality of some of the footage from AE I’m rendering…

  I have footage I’ve created in AE that includes screenshots. I import them into Premier, and when I click on them to view they are fine, but once I drop them on the timeline and a preview is created, some of the screenshot lines look jagged and generally lower quality than the original.

  Any idea why this might happen? I’ve looked at different settings but can’t figure it out.

  Thanks a million,

  LB

  Filip Vandueren replied 20 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Mark Landsburger

  July 21, 2005 at 4:19 am

  Looks like I found out that it’s the DV compression in Premier that is taking down the quality of my images. I had no idea this was the case (feel quite stupid)

  SO… Can anyone suggest a way to get my footage from AE onto my vx2000 without loosing the quality I seem to be with Premier. How do all of you handle it?

  Thanks,

  LB
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  Filip Vandueren

  July 21, 2005 at 2:45 pm

  True, DV lowers the quality, epecially in fine color detail in saturated colors.

  What’s probably happening is that because it is DV, it’s assumed to be interlaced video.
  After effects deinterlaces (and throws out a field) for displaying.
  (it looks like it has half resolution vertical)

  You’ll have to either render it out using fields or interpret the footage as having no frames.

  I don’t use premiere, but it’s possible it does the same thing: only displaying 1 field so you don’t see jagged edges on the computer-screen.

  When you export or dump to video-tape, it’s probably solved.
  If not, ask this question in the premiere forum.

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