Aliased ProRes 422 Video in Premiere Pro CS6

[Angelo Lorenzo]

Are you resizing these graphics in Premiere? You’ll want to check “Maximum render quality” when exporting as your first troubleshooting step; it controls the quality of resized elements.

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[Shawn Marshall]

Thanks for the reply.

I’m not resizing the clip. That Quicktime, a 1280×720 3D animation compressed with the ProRes 422 (HQ) codec is being displayed in the Source Window at 100%, Full Quality. If I drop the clip onto the New Item icon to create a new sequence with the clip, I get the same aliasing in the Program Window.

However, if I take the original animation, run it through After Effects, recompress it with the Animation and ProRes 4444 codecs and bring those into PPro, those look clean. No aliasing.

So maybe it doesn’t like ProRes 422 (HQ)?

Shawn Marshall
Marshall Arts Motion Graphics

[Tapio Haaja]

Hi,

I’ve reported this to Adobe and their engineering manager confirmed issue and promised fix in next update.

[Chris Tompkins]

But how does it look after exporting the edit?

Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC

[Shawn Marshall]

Hi:

Thanks for the replies.

As I noted in my first post, the offending clips export fine. I’d just rather have everything looking clean throughout, and since I’m revisiting PPro after ten years I wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing a setting or something.

Cheers.

Shawn Marshall
Marshall Arts Motion Graphics

[Chris Tompkins]

I understand, But don’t judge video on the computer screen in your editor…

That’s all.

Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC

[Shawn Marshall]

My concern was that that animation clip looks fine in FCP 7, but I can’t stay on FCP 7 forever. Do I give FCPX a try, despite its well-discussed issues and new approach or do I go to Premiere Pro CS6, which would be closer to what I’m used to but apparently has its own issues, including an inability to display some ProRes 422 (HQ) content correctly.

Thanks.

Shawn Marshall
Marshall Arts Motion Graphics

[Jon Barrie]

G’day Shawn,

It’s just a redraw “type” issue with the codec, if it exports out fine, be patient 🙂

There’s so much great stuff in the workflow of PrCS6 that everyone that “gets” the different approach have fallen in love with it and are helping to make it even better with the type of feedback and social forum look in’s guys at Adobe like myself do on a regular basis.

We know there’s more to work on, we’re listening and want it to be best it can be.

– JB

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[Erik Lindahl]

PrPro has a very low quality preview window / viewer sadly. FCP7, FCPX, VLC, QTX, AE etc all beat it by far.

Hope Adobe gets around to fixing that. Widescreen SD-footage looks even more horrible.

[Shawn Marshall]

Thanks for the replies. I downloaded the trial of FCP X, but the workflow eludes me; I’ll have to play with it a while. It would be nice if it fit my needs since it’s so much more attractively priced compared to Premiere Pro, for which I’d probably have to buy a full license ($800). The last version of Premiere we bought was 5.1. Not Premiere Pro CS 5.1, but Premiere 5.1, circa 1999. I’m guessing there’s no upgrade path from that. Not “Pro” enough, I suppose.

Cheers.

Shawn Marshall
Marshall Arts Motion Graphics