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Quality issues on TV screen after export
Hi there,
Sorri if this is a noob question…
In premiere I have imported an .avi (lossless. via after effects) and then exported using Adobe media encoder.When I have viewed this on tv its very ‘bitmapped’ and tends to flicker.
Not sure what settings to use… as this will be used on TV I need them to be as good as possible.
The footage is around 5 mins and needs to fit on a 1gig cf card.please help, Im desperate.
C att for settings in premiere.
Many thanks,
Kelvin -
6 Replies
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Some things to consider are, is your project progressive or interlaced. Your source, project settings, and export should match.
Don’t resize, rotate, or apply motion to interlaced video.
I often deinterlace and ‘filmify’ my interlaced video to improve the look. These subjects can be searched in the archive…
https://forums.creativecow.net/forums_search.phpIf you are encoding for DVD, you could try 2-pass, VBR 8000/6000/3825. There should be a ‘Quality’ slider, set it to the maximum, I think it’s ‘5’.
A number if things can cause flicker. It could be that your color is outside of the Broadcast Color spectrum. In Premiere, you could nest your final sequence than add Effect/Video/Broadcast Color.
Or you could do it in AE…
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/broadcast_safe.php
Flicker could also be caused by inverting your field order, if you’re using interlaced video.Vince
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Many thanks. sorry for sounding like a dum dum.. but i really dont know much about this. Whats better progressive or interlaced, and how do I make them the same? do I also have to do this with the after effects file? I notice that theres a ‘deinterlace’ check box in Adobe Media encoder window. where else do i need to change it? cheers, kelvin.
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many thanks Vince. not too sure whether my settings are interlaced or progressive. can you let me know exactly whereabouts I can change these settings… and which option is best.
The text seems to be worst affected.. more so than the images, but these still are far from perfect.
The final mpeg plays okay on Pc monitor, just not on TV screen.
Cheers
Kelvin -
In Premiere, look in Project/Project Settings/General/Video/Fields. It will be set to either Progressive or Interlaced.
If your final product will be played on a DVD player, your project can be either Progressive or Interlaced, as DVD hardware will interlace a progressive program for correct display on a CRT.The Field Order setting is chosen when the project is created, and cannot be changed after that point. The reason is that, your project settings are specific to your final display goal.
The only way to change the field order would be to create a new project with new settings, than import the old project into the new one.Which is better? That is very subjective, and would lead to a lenghty discussion that would confuse your immediate goals. 🙂
If the project settings are Interlaced, you would want to make sure that your source files and encoding settings are also interlaced.Which is the best, for your project settings… That depends.
You used the term ‘footage’, so I assume your source material was shot on a camera.
If the source material was created in After Effects, it is likely Progressive.
Also, AE deinterlaces by default. So, even if you had interlaced source material, you may have unintentionally deinterlaced it.As far as your text, there are special considerations to make when creating type for video, as opposed for print.
Any type that has horizontal components that are 2 pixels or less will probably flicker on a CRT. Generally, type for video should be a bit bigger and/or bolder for video.
Also, you should honor the Text Safe Guides. In PP & AE there is a button at the bottom of the monitor that will enable these guides.If you are creating text in Premiere, apply Video Effect/Gaussian Blur to the text and set it to ‘0’.
There are a few open-ended points in my response. We would need to know what type source material you are working with – DV, HD, Progressive, Interlaced, for instance. And, what region you are in NTSC or PAL.
Maybe download GSpot, It will tell you much information about your source material…
https://www.headbands.com/gspot/Video isn’t easy. At any step in the process, there a bunch of things that you can either do worse or better. It takes time.
Vince
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Many thanks again Vince!! Problem solved. There was a conflict with the field order. Just started a new project as you suggested and made everything ‘progressive’. Many thanks for your help Vince, kinda been thrown into the unknown but you have helped me immensely. Cant thank you enough… be prepared for further questions in the future though hehe.
Kind regards
Kelvin -
lol. Your welcome.
*smiles*Vince
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