• Adobe Premiere Pro

  outputting quicktime mov and keeping the quality

  Posted by Jen Addison on October 6, 2010 at 4:15 pm

  Can anybody give me some expert advice?
  I am trying to output quicktime mov from premiere pro cs4 and am having trouble with the quality. I am only new to video editing I have noticed when I outputted my recent clips and viewed them at 100% with QuickTime player they look blocky with big square pixels. I am at a loss and don’t quite know what to do to put this right. Here are some specs to see if you can see what the problem is – sorry its so long winded.

  Hd footage filmed on Sony HDR-CX115E – (sdhc card)
  High Definition – AVCHD (1920 X 1080)
  MOVIE QUALITY – hd;fx 1920 X 1080i, 24 Mbps

  Premiere Pro CS4

  New sequence setting

  AVCHD 1080i 25 (50i)
  Preset description – For editing AVCHD Formats recorded in 1920×1080 square pixels (non-anamorphic).
  16:9 interlaced HD video at 25 frames per second.
  48kHz audio.

  General
  Editing mode: AVCHD 1080i square pixel
  Time base: 25.00fps

  Video Settings
  Frame size: 1920h 1080v (1.0000)
  Frame rate: 25.00 frames/second
  Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square Pixels (1.0)
  Fields: Upper Field First

  In project window it reads file name with m2ts file extension – right click on file it reads :- File Path: G:\CAMCORDER\14-08-2010\20100814112632.m2ts
  Type: MPEG Movie
  File Size: 129.9 MB
  Image Size: 1920 x 1080
  Pixel Depth: 32
  Frame Rate: 25.00
  Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz – compressed – Stereo
  Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz – 32 bit floating point – Stereo
  Total Duration: 00:00:48:22
  Average Data Rate: 2.7 MB / second
  Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.0

  File – export – media then media encoder opens up

  Export settings are:- format – QuickTime
  Video codec:- Photo-JPEG (codec setting:- optimize for streaming unchecked)
  Quality_ 95
  Width 1920
  Height – 1080
  Frame rate:- 25
  Field type:- upper first
  Aspect:- square pixels 1.0
  render at maximum depth – unchecked
  codec settings 24bit

  Roger Lokers replied 15 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Vince Becquiot

  October 6, 2010 at 7:43 pm

  Hi Jen,

  All your settings look fine. One culprit could be the Quicktime player itself.

  Check the player preferences and make sure that high quality playback is enabled. You could also try an export as Motion Jpeg or Animation (I would take motion Jpeg over Photo jpeg anyway).

  Vince Becquiot

  Kaptis Studios
  San Francisco – Bay Area
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  Jen Addison

  October 6, 2010 at 8:35 pm

  Hi Vince, thanks so much for that – I will check it out and let you know how it goes – thanks again
  Jen
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  Jen Addison

  October 9, 2010 at 7:42 am

  Hi Vince, have tried your methods with still no improvement, quicktime player was already set to high quality so I thought i would try a different method so i imported a M2TS file into after effects and out putted to quicktime and its brilliant – only thing is the file size is huge – any idea how i can get that down a bit? thanks again – Jen
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  Roger Lokers

  November 10, 2010 at 7:50 pm

  Is there a reason why you’re using Photo-Jpeg? Most use H.264 for high quality

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