• Adobe Premiere Pro

  “Muddy” MP4 output in CS4

  Posted by William Mcqueen on February 24, 2016 at 10:40 pm

  Still using CS4 for uncomplicated edits.

  When I output timeline to Adobe Media Encoder CS4, the conversion
  to MP4 lacks the clarity of the original footage. I use the h264
  settings. Any easy way to improve the brightness and clarity of the
  output? I believe I output the highest quality settings. (I think.)
  i.e. How can I avoid a kind of “muddy” look.

  Thanks
  Bill in Toronto

  Chris Borjis replied 10 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
• 3 Replies

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  Chris Borjis

  February 24, 2016 at 10:59 pm

  What bit rate did you use?
• 

  William Mcqueen

  February 26, 2016 at 11:34 pm

  Hi Chris,

  I set the bit rate to VBR, 1 pass
  Target Bitrate 3
  Maximum Bitrate 6

  I “volunteered” to do a short YouTube piece for some folks and
  it stutters online. Also YT says these are their standards…

  Video codec: H.264
  Progressive scan (no interlacing)
  High Profile
  2 consecutive B frames
  Closed GOP. GOP of half the frame rate.
  CABAC
  Variable bitrate. No bitrate limit required, though we offer recommended bit rates below for reference
  Chroma subsampling: 4:2:0

  Don’t understand some of this stuff. I did h264 on 16:9.

  Any help very gratefully appreciated.
  Thanks
  Bill in Toronto
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  Chris Borjis

  March 3, 2016 at 6:57 pm

  Well it could be stuttering on youtube because of the buggy implementation
  of html5 on firefox. (if they were viewing it that way)

  Chrome plays youtube videos much smoother.

  anyhoo, whenever I do youtube or other online videos
  I always do a 5mb target, 5mb max vbr and the quality
  of picture is usually great.

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