Blurry Imported Footage

[Richard Stegall]

It is set on highest quality. What does my sequence need to be set up as?

[Eddie Lotter]

It’s like that your project (or sequence) settings don’t match your source clip.

It’s also possible your source or program monitor is set to draft quality.

Cheers
Eddie

[Eddie Lotter]

The same as your clip.

Cheers
Eddie

[Richard Stegall]

So 640×480 and whatever frame rate I am running

[Jon Barrie]

What are the clip properties?
right click the clip in the project panel…
– Jon 😉

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[Richard Stegall]

Here are the properties for the file. I was wrong we are using an AVI file @ 720×480 but it still gets heavily degraded upon import. I have also included links to screen shots of the difference.

https://67.211.7.195/import.jpg
https://67.211.7.195/source.jpg

File Path: F:MediaHVRrecon101Manheim3dccFixed_8.avi
Type: AVI Movie
File Size: 6.6 GB
Image Size: 720 x 480
Pixel Depth: 32
Frame Rate: 25.00
Source Audio Format: 32000 Hz – 16 bit – Stereo
Project Audio Format: 32000 Hz – 32 bit floating point – Stereo
Total Duration: 00:37:30:14
Average Data Rate: 3.0 MB / second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 0.9091

Created with: Adobe After Effects 9.0
AVI File details:
Contains 1 video track(s) and 1 audio track(s).
Interleave: 1 : 25.00

Video track 1:
Size is 6.28G bytes (average frame = 122.18K bytes)
There are 56264 keyframes.
Frame rate is 25.00 fps
Frame size is 720 x 480
Depth is 24 bits.

Audio track 1:
Size is 274.72M bytes
Rate is 32000 samples/sec
Sample size is 16 bits

[Eddie Lotter]

I’m not sure how you can confuse a 640×480 .MOV file with a 720×480 .AVI file, but things get even more strange.

720×480 is an NTSC resolution but 25 fps is a PAL frame rate.

From the information you provided I recommend you create a new project using a PAL DV preset, but change the preset options to “Desktop”, change the resolution and pixel aspect ratio to 720×480 and “0.9” respectively. Now import the clip into this project.

Cheers
Eddie

[Richard Stegall]

Sorry for the confusion, I was giving the file info secondhand by a coworker I will try the settings and report back. Thanks for all the help. You guys are the experts.

[Richard Stegall]

Thanks for the help guys. The projects did not match. It is crystal clear now.

Thanks