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loss in imported avi quality
Hello,
First-time poster. My apologies in advance.
I’ve imported an avi file and created a composition from it. As far as I can tell all of the settings are in line with the initial avi settings, but the quality degrades the moment I add it to the composition. There are screen shots involved, and the text is legible in the original avi file but becomes illegible in the composition.The avi is 720×480 (0.91) 29.97 fps
The composition is NTSC DV, 720×480, D1/DV NTSC (0.91) full quality.
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Common causes for that kind of issue:
[1] The footage isn’t interpreted correctly … right click on it in the project panel, select “interpret footage” and make sure everything in that window is correct (particularly interlaced or non-interlaced).
[2] There’s a viewing setting wrong that’s making the footage look bad in the comp viewer even though there’s nothing actually wrong … double-check that your comp viewer is set to full resolution (vs. half or quarter) and that the layer resolution is set to full (vs. draft).
[3] The AVI is in some kind of wonky codec … the AVI format is only a wrapper (like MOV) so AVIs can be made with any one of very many different codecs. If that is the problem, the easiest solution is to transcode the file to a more standard codec.
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It turned out to be problem #3.
Thanks for the advice!
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