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CS3 Exporting Issues
Hello!
I’m looking for some help with some exporting issues I have been experiencing. I have used PPro for the past eight years or so, and have just switched over to the Mac version. I’m running an new MacBook Pro.
I am editing .mov files and then exporting them, but when I export, there is a definite lack of quality. It looks slightly pixilated but it also looked like it was an interlacing issue. I’ve never had to deinterlace on the PC before. I tried deinterlacing the footage and that helped slightly, but the file was still not clear and a bit jerky.
I have tried exporting to .mov with several different codecs (h.264, sorenson, etc.), exporting direct to DVD, and exporting to media encoder, all of which produced the same results.
The original footage looks good (I can pull it into my PC and export with no problems) so I don’t think the issue is there.
Does anyone have any recommendations? I’ve contacted Adobe, but since we’re a church and had non-profit pricing, it doesn’t come with tech support and they won’t help without a yearly fee(!).
I’m extremely frustrated and would love any help at all – I’m willing to try anything at this point!
Please email with any other questions – goldie at meadowheights dot com
Thanks!
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7 Replies
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[Michael Goldsmith] “I am editing .mov files”
What are the Properties of these .mov files? Where did they come from?
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Most of the .mov files we have shot ourselves using a prosumer camera, either a JVC-GYHD250U (but shooting in SD) or from a Canon GL1 model. I have a hard drive capture set up in .mov format and I pull from there.
I have also taken pre-produced .mov files that I know are quality and used them. The original footage looks great, but once I pull it into PPro and then export it, the quality is quite degraded.
Let me know if you need any additional info.
Michael
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In Premiere’s timeline is there a red (needs rendered) line above these video clips?
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Now that you mention it, I believe there was. At the time I thought it was odd because normally it’s ready to go, not requiring any rendering.
I think that the red was there regardless of the clips I brought in but I’m not positive.
Your thoughts?
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I suspect either the clips are not DV and compressed with a lossy codec or there is a NTSC/PAL project settings conflict. Get the Properties for your source clips in Premiere…File>Properties. Also is this a NTSC or PAL project (Project settings)
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This is a NTSC project. I’ll pull the properties on some of the clips I’ve been using. Some of them come from the hard drive I’m recording to (Focus DR-HD100) are DV in .mov format and then some of the pre-recorded clips I might use are .mov with the h.264 codec. Both come out looking the same way.
I can record to the Focus hard drive in DV with the .avi format and pull it to my PC and it looks great so I don’t think the hard drive is the issue. My PC is a laptop and quite old and the Mac saves me half the time in render and process time. That’s one of the reasons we switched to the Mac along with some other creative software. However, it’s been quite the struggle so far!!
Thanks for the thoughts and let me know what you think with the above info. What project settings would cause conflicts?
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[Michael Goldsmith] “What project settings would cause conflicts?”
Any Project Preset that can cause your video to resize.
The H264 clips wont work well at all.
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