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Help – premier creating jagged lines in footage
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 include screenshots. I import them into Premier, and when I click on them to view they are fine, but once 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
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9 Replies
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Once the footage is transformed into DV AVI it may not look as good as the original footage from AE. Export to DV AVI from AE and it will not need to be rendered. But there is no way to avoid the reduction in quality from something created in AE at full resolution to something at a lower resolution in DV.
Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1 / After Effects 6.5 Pro https://www.stevengotz.com
Learning Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 https://www.lynda.com
Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5 -
Thanks for the quick reply…
Wow – I had no idea that Premier was compressing and loosing quality. Is there now way to get around this? Maybe this is the reason the Avid people tell me it’s not REAL editing (and if it looses quality maybe it’s not).
So if there is no way around this, the next question is how can I get a file I rendered to AE recoreded onto my vx2000 without going through Premier and loosing quality.
Thanks for the help
LB -
Looks more like a preview issue. WHat are the properties of your program monitor? Is it set to draft resolution or to high resolution? Also, have you enabled the ‘Optimize Stills’ option?
Aanarav Sareen
Adobe Certfied Expert, Premiere Pro
https://www.asvideoproductions.com/video -
I’m afraid it doesn’t seem to be a preview issue, because it also outputs to my camera with the same issues. I do have it set to highest resolution and optimize stills is on.
Looks like it might be a MS DV issue I’m afraid. Based on the first post by Steven, I rendered from AE using MS DV compression and it looked just about the same as from Premier.
What I have is a small screenshot that is rotated about 20 percent. In AE it’s crisp, but if I use the DV compression it get’s jagged and a bit blurred. Anyway to get it to my DV camera without using the Premier compression?
Thanks a bunch. I show the product tomorrow… ;0
LB
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Well, you could export the video from Premiere Pro as an AVI and then use the trial version of ScLive to output it to tape.
Aanarav Sareen
Adobe Certfied Expert, Premiere Pro
https://www.asvideoproductions.com/video -
Well, you could export the video from Premiere Pro as an AVI and then use the trial version of ScLive to output it to tape.
Hey – looks like we’re getting close. Do you mean export from AE as an AVI or did you mean PP? I understand if you mean AE, but not sure what you mean for PP.
And ScLive will not compress from AE when sending it via firewire to my cam?
THANKS THANKS THANKS
LB -
The problem is most likely what you are doing in AE. If you are adding sharp titles for example. The DV codec does not like sharp lines. No quality is lost in Premiere Pro. The quality is lost going to the DV codec. Even Avid would have the same problem.
Please expand on what you are doing in AE so we might be able to assist you better. You are taking captured video and doing what to it?
Steven
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1 / After Effects 6.5 Pro https://www.stevengotz.com
Learning Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 https://www.lynda.com
Contributing Writer, PeachPit Press, Visual QuickPro Guide, Premiere Pro 1.5 -
OK – I’ll give more detail…
I have video shot in our office, and I’ve taken some product screenshots and placed them over the live video in AE. They’ve been resized, rotated, and in some cases animated. They file coming from AE looks great. The screenshots that are in the video look sharp and clear. However, once on the Premier timeline and with the Premier output, the lines of the screenshot seem jagged and not crisp. This is bad for my project because the screenshots are what it’s all about.
Which leads me to trying to find a way to get it to my camera looking like it does from AE.
Let me know if you need more info. I tried to be detailed.
Thanks again,
LB -
I don’t know why, but on my second test, outputting from AE using the DV codec looks like is works. I don’t know why the AE version would be better but it seems to be.
Thanks for all the suggestions. I’ll let you know if it didn’t actually fix it.
I love the cow!
LB
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