• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Why is my video quality pixelated when I scale

  Posted by Virgil Tibbs on August 16, 2012 at 5:15 pm

  I’m using Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and I am working on a sequence that is 800×450. My source footage is 1920×1080 and when I place the footage on the timeline at 100% the image quality is pixelated. When i reduce the footage to 42% to fit the frame, the quality is fine. Does that seem right? I was thinking with a larger source file on a small frame I should be able to easily scale before the quality started to decline.

  Ivan Myles replied 13 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Todd Kaiser

  May 16, 2013 at 5:57 pm

  Try setting your sequence to progessive. Pixelation will occur with dramatic downscales, but that should still work ok.
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  Ivan Myles

  May 16, 2013 at 7:29 pm

  Other items to check include program monitor scaling (100%), playback quality (full), and sequence preview codec. Also try exporting a short clip to verify the render quality.

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