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avi quality degradation when dropped into Timeline
Long-time Vegas user, Premiere newbie here…
I have a nice crisp and clean uncompressed avi video captured by Camtasia. It looks just as good in the source monitor in Premiere where I’m doing my editing, but when I drop it into the Timeline, it becomes very “cloudy” or fuzzy looking… no where near the quality of the source.
I’ve tried everything from turning off/on Field Blend, to trying various Field Options settings, but they are all giving me the same, or worse, results.
I’ve tried different display settings, and rendered in various formats, and all have poor video quality results.I feel I’m missing something here… why would the quality get so degraded when moved to the Timeline? Why doesn’t it display the clip at the same quality as the Source Monitor and source file?
– The Foonshoe
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4 Replies
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I’m not sure where you are seeing the degradation. If it’s in the video preview area in Premiere, then it’s normal, at least until it’s rendered. You can change the setting to best quality (Small arrow top right of video in PP2), but unless you have a fast computer, the frame rate will drop considerably.
Vince
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It may just be because you are changing codecs to DV AVI. If you want to edit Camtasia, use a custom setting with the Techsmith codec.
Steven
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Perfect! When using the TSCC compression in Premiere, and matching the rate settings of the source, I’m able to render this out to a video that is of the same crisp and clean quality. I’m so stoked!
Thanks for the insight. The Cow rocks so hard!– The Foonshoe
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Thanks for the head’s up on the poor quality in the preview area. Weird enough, the quality in the Source monitor is as great as the source file, but not in the Program preview window. My machine has dual-core with 3GB of RAM, 2 hard drives, so it’s not slow…
Now worries though, after taking the advice to render with tscc settings, it is working out perfectly.Now, if I can only pinpoint what is making Premiere crash nearly every time I use it, then I’d be all set… hmmmm…
– The Foonshoe
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