• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Jaggies with Quicktime DV

  Posted by Paul Murphy on February 1, 2010 at 2:44 am

  I am trying to export a sequence to quicktime DV in PPro CS4, and the result is some rather jagged text.

  I have done some tests, and isolated the problem to PPro and Quicktime. I have determined the following:
  – Export as uncompressed quicktime, still get jaggies
  – Export from progressive scan project, still get jaggies
  – Export as mpeg2, quality not so bad
  – Import project into AE, export as uncompressed quicktime, quality is perfect
  – Export above AE render from PPro as Quicktime DV, still get jaggies

  Any help would be much appreciated. I am not new to PPro, but new to PPro on Mac, so I haven’t had much experience working with quicktime.

  Jeff Brown replied 16 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jeff Brown

  February 1, 2010 at 2:16 pm

  Open your “jaggy” Qtime movie in QT player, go to Show Movie Properties, highlight the Video Track, and check under Visual Settings. Chances are that “High Quality” is not on (checked). QTimeDV defaults to a low quality display, which is stupid, but… there you go.

  -Jeff
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  Paul Murphy

  February 1, 2010 at 10:13 pm

  Thanks Jeff. I looked into this and it was set to High Quality.

  Further testing revealed that it was the fact that I was exporting a progressive Quicktime from an interlaced sequence. I’m new to the concept of multiple sequence settings within the one project, having upgraded from CS2 to CS4 🙂

  Thanks for your help.
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  Jeff Brown

  February 2, 2010 at 1:44 pm

  [Paul Murphy] “I was exporting a progressive Quicktime from an interlaced sequence.”

  OK, that too would give you some less-than-ideal results! Glad you found the problem.

  -Jeff

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