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Hair-Pulling Frustration with AME
I just don’t understand what I’m doing wrong.
I take screencasts for a video blog I do, and I’m trying to go from 640×360 broadcasts to 720p HD. After creating a new Premiere project file, I quickly discovered that all of the encoders included in AME really hate high resolution footage that needs to stay sharp.
Take a look at the following screenshots I’ve attached.
I’m at my wit’s end. I’ve tried every encoder and they all have this artifact. There is no quality setting that yields good results.
Has anyone seen this kind of artifact before? What else can I try?
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5 Replies
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Alex,
Up converting (and down converting) is the weakest point of most editing systems. Premiere will yield better results with “maximum quality checked, but don’t look for a miracle.
After Effects will do a better job than most.
You could take a look at Instant HD from Red Giant. It will do a great job with some work and patience. The other solution is using the proper hardware, but that gets very expensive very quickly.
Vince Becquiot
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It appears you have either deinterlaced or edited in an interlaced timeline and set export to progressive.
Did u edit in a custom or preset timeline?
Did u try to export a sample to compare with the maximum quality ticked in the hidden option. Of ame settings?
I have worked with multiple screen capture apps and not experienced your results. So this is not normal/expected behaviour.
– Jon Barrie
Jon Barrie
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http://www.jonbarrie.net
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I guess that’s what’s leaving me so confused. I’m converting across identical formats and resolutions. The footage is 1280×720 H.264 from the time it leaves VirtualDub to the time it’s supposed to be fired out of a cannon at YouTube.
Theoretically, Prem shouldn’t be changing with the resolution at all but the artifacts suggest that is what’s happening
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0.0 Oh…my…God. That was it all along.
Thanks so much Jon! I had de-interlace enabled and turning that off cleared the problem right up.
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I have seen something similar, called a watermark. They put it on illegal software. Then its on everything you make in that software…
“Oop, I think my render is done!”
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