Bad image quality from AE to Premiere

[Dave Friend]

It would be helpful to know exactly what the PPro project settings are and exactly what you render setting are in AE.

Dave

[Nathan Trenkamp]

Thanks for responding. It’s much appreciated.

Premiere Pro Capture settings are:

Capture settings: Matrox AVI
Video Rendering: Matrox DV/DVCamNTSC
Input Device: RT.X2

am I missing any other info? (I’m more of an AE guy)

AE settings:

I usually just click and drag the composition from the AE project window into the Premiere Pro project window. Than, I render it out on the timeline.

I’ve also rendered it out into an avi. file using no compression, 300kb/sec data rate, best settings, field render lower field first, and videos for windows format. However, both of these settings still look blurry when I bring them into Premiere.

Help

Thanks again.

[Vince Becquiot]

300kb/s doesn’t sound like much, and DV AVI is a bad choice for any animation render.

From AE, if you are not using the dynamic link, use the render queue and use lossless.

From Premiere, choose “Microsoft AVI”, then under video, choose compressor “none” and uncheck “Recompress”.

Vince

[Formernewsshooter]

Hi Folks,

I work with Hubert45, but in another office and I’m just finishing up system upgrades centered around the RT.X2 card. We currently RT.X100 systems and had never experienced this blurring problem. But I was able to see just what he is experiencing. It seems that this new card uses 720×486 as the default for their DV preset, while the RT.x100 uses 720×480. I pulled in a QT that I rendered out of AE and it looked awful! If rendered out of a 720×486 project, it looks as it should back in PP2. AE lists 720×486 as a D1 preset. Does anyone know why Matrox decided to change resolution defaults? Considering this card was seemingly meant as an upgrade path from the RT.X100, the change just doesn’t make sense to me. The resolution settings are greyed out and I don’t now if they can be changed! Maybe this is why I have heard that footage captured with an RT.X100 system is a little sluggish in an RT.X2 timeline. We’ll find out if that’s true in our case later today….

Tom

[Dave Friend]

[formernewsshooter] “Does anyone know why Matrox decided to change resolution defaults?”

As I understand it (and that understanding might be less than complete) Matrox went with 486 because that is the spec for uncompressed NTSC D1 video. So they “cheat” the DV preset up to 486 in order to be able to mix uncompress and DV footage on the same timeline.

It should be possible to define a new output module for AE that uses the Matrox DV/DVCam avi codec. The comp should also be set to match that template’s specs. That may not help you much when using footage captured using the X100.

There may be more information and/or work arounds available on the Matrox/Axio/X2 website or user forums.

Dave

[Nan Toskey]

I’m experiencing poor quality on my AE comp to PPRo too … even when importing the comp directly via Dynamic Link. Wassup?

It’s the text that looks bad … but good in AE. What am I missing?