• Adobe Premiere Pro

  16:9 pixelation in QuickTime

  Posted by Kirby Ferguson on September 20, 2006 at 1:16 pm

  Hi everybody.

  I’m getting pixelation of edges when I export a 16:9 video to QuickTime. You can see what’s happening below:

  https://www.goodiebag.tv/odds/nerve_sex_advice_opening.mov
  (Warning: link is slightly racy; contains burlesque dancing)

  The hi-res AVI is fine. I’m using PP 1.5, and I’ve tried encoding with both QuickTime Pro and from the timeline with Media Encoder.

  Thanks!
  Kirby Ferguson

  Mike Velte replied 19 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
• 4 Replies

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  Dave Friend

  September 20, 2006 at 4:33 pm

  Kirby,

  Try selecting the “High Quality Enabled” option for the video track of the movie properties. (I wish this option were on by default.)

  Dave
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  Kirby Ferguson

  September 20, 2006 at 6:38 pm

  Thanks Dave, but where do you find that setting?
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  Dave Friend

  September 20, 2006 at 10:09 pm

  It is part of the QuickTime Pro player. Once the movie is loaded in the player press ctrl+J to open the movie’s property dialog. In the upper left drop-down select “Video Track” the, in the upper right drop-down, select “Quality”. On the Quality page you will find the checkbox for High Quality Enabled.

  You will have to save the move for this setting to persist for this mov file.

  AFAIK, this Quality setting is only used by the QuickTime player. If you import the quicktime to some other player (or an NLE) is seems to come in as High Quality. Or maybe not. I haven’t tested this premise extensively.

  Hope this helps.

  Dave
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  Mike Velte

  September 21, 2006 at 1:27 pm

  Looks like your video is interlaced…make sure you deinterlace your timeline clips; Right click on each clip and choose: Field Options>Always Deinterlace.

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