after effects avi to premiere pro pixelated

[Steven L. gotz]

DV is a bit picky.

Are you using drop shadows and avoiding pure blacks and pure whites?

Steven

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[Vince Becquiot]

It’s probably because you are looking at a compressed preview window. Set the preview setting to best, then select the preview window and hit the ~ key.

Vince

[Scot Sheely]

I agree with Vince on this one.

To preview the full-res version of your .AVI in PPRO, simply hit your ENTER key to render a preview file of the project.

Depending on your system resources, this might take a while to complete. A good idea might be to use the render selection slider at the top of the Timeline (directly below the CTI – Current Time Indicator) and select only the area where the .AVI is nested to help reduce the time it takes to render a preview.

Once the preview is fully rendered, your .AVI should appear to be “normal” when reviewing that section of your Timeline.

Also, just as Vince correctly suggested, make sure you have selected the full-res preview function in PPRO by left-clicking on the 3 color orbs at the bottom of the preview window. This will enable a drop-down menu with several choices as to the resolution of your playback. When you mouse over this widget, the yellow pop-up description will show the word “OUTPUT”.

Towards the bottom of that context menu you will see the choices: Highest Quailty, Draft Quality and Automatic Quality. Choose Highest Quality for a full-res preview of the .AVI and the Timeline in general.

If you have a lot of layers, motion graphics, titles and filters (effects, transitions, etc.), then selecting DRAFT QUALITY helps PPRO chug along a little more nicely than Auto or Full res in your Timeline.

Scot Sheely

[Patrick Pitu]

I’m still getting degraded video when bringing high quality titles into PPRO 2.0. What am i doing wrong??

[Justin Russo]

I am having this issue as well. The problem is not the preview of the video, but rather when I render out to an AVI from Premier, it looks as bad as it did in the “Rendered Preview”. It looks fantastic in After Effects. I’ve spent hours banging my head on my keyboard trying to get it to render right.

Please help.

Thanks,

Justin

[Jon Barrie]

I am going to make a guess here.
Both of you are exporting to DV. DV is compressed and therefore shite. It always has been and always will be.
AE is probably spitting out an uncompressed with alpha (from drop down list) which will look amazing. It is uncompressed = no quality degredation. Basically;
Uncompressed – Quality 1.
*DV (a form of compressed) – Quality 1/5th of Uncompressed.
*DVD (MPEG-2 another compressed form) – 1/40th of Uncompressed.

*All compression makes the file size smaller because it’s forfeiting quality in colour samples per frame and freezing parts of the the frame to not recalculate (sample) every pixels change every single frame.

It’s starting to frustrate me how many “Editors'” out there have no education in basic white papers of editing and compression.

– Jon 😉

How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?

[Justin Russo]

Jon,

First of all, I’m sorry that you are getting frustrated. I’ll buy you a stress ball.

As for the rendering, my footage is originally DV, but the graphics I added in AE are not. Is it possible for me to convert my raw footage in Premier to an uncompressed format so I can preview my AE footage properly when I drop it into Premier? Also, what format should I render to so everything is uncompressed?

Thanks,

Justin

[Jon Barrie]

Thanks for the stress ball… 😉
Here’s the thing. Video footage is only ever going to be as good as it’s original recorded format. DV is always going to look and behave like DV. Making it Uncompressed, only means you’re making it live inside a different codec. It won’t make it look any different, only make the file size massive! (at least 5 times bigger than the DV file!)
– Jon 😉
PS: To render/export to Uncompressed you need to ask the export to movie settings to use General\File Type: Microsoft AVI
Then the Video\Compressor: None or Uncompressed UYVY 8-bit
– Jon 🙂

How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?

[Justin Russo]

Good Morning and thanks for your knowledge.

Is there a particular codec I need to be able to view the rendered footage in my Windows Media Player? For some reason when I render the way you say, if I open the rendered .AVI, I can hear the audio perfect, but the screen is black.

Thanks,

Justin