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Is there any hope in importing a non-blurry video into the timeline when it doesnt match the sequence?
Basically I am editing together a film shot at 720×480. i captured a video on my pc of the screen for use in the film but it was only a portion of the screen. I imported that into the timeline and it imports very blurry. I also noticed that importing images makes them blurry as well.
I read that it is because the timeline settings arent matching the footage, and selecting scale to frame size isnt doing the trick. Am i doomed to blurry footage or is there any way around this?
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Just upscale it to 720×480 in your image editor. If it’s large enough, it will be easy to crop it to the right dimensions. If it isn’t large enough, an image editor will be better at resizing it than a video editor. You can try capturing the portion of the screen again at a higher resolution setting, if your video card will allow.
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Image editor? Wtf, dont listen to that guy, his advice doesnt make any sense, the op was talking about a video not an image.
Op, i dont get what u mean by “timeline doesnt match your video size”. If you didnt select the right size for your timeline then yeah its not going to be the right size. Either use a preset, or if none of those match your footage (though they should since ur working in a standard resolution), then you can select “custom->desktop” and make whatever size you want.
You might also want to consider converting your files to the lagarith codec using virtualdub, as premiere has a tendency to muck certain types of compressed footage, particularly interlaced, if you try to edit it natively in that format. Also be careful to keep all your footage size’s even or odd, which means if you got a bunch of footage shot at 135×246 then you need to make sure their all either 136×246 or 135×245 (its an issue caused by premiere/ae trying to scale footage to comp size on a subpixel level which causes ugly blurring).
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Well i guess he mentioned an image editor since I said this was happening with images I import also.
What i mean by timeline not matching video size: The sequence settings are set for 720×480 video. Now if I record a portion of my screen with Camtasia and import that video, no matter what I do it ends up blurry even though the source is crisp. I read that this is because the video i’m importing isnt the exact size as the sequence settings. (I guess I expected Premiere to do a better job scaling the imported video from Camtasia). So that is what I meant by that.
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Um, yeah, when you scale something up its going to look like crap. If you want a crisp 720×480 then record at 720×480.
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