Pixelated output from Premiere CS4 via Media encoder

[Retheesh Gopi]

Hai all,
i was also face this same problem. but now its fixed, first of all, which version of os you have, if you have winXP you must install service pack 3. if vista then ok. after that please re install the software. Sure it will be ok… cheers

[Matt Skutnik]

I am also having this problem using CS4 and Snow Leopard. There seems to be some issue’s with using HD and SD clips combined as wel, and possibly PSD files. I have tried every possible output option: TGA stills, QT TGA, QT SOR, QT TIFF, QT h.264, Mpeg, M2V, QT NONE etc.

There seems to be no way to get the output to look as the original source does without getting pixelation especially noticeable on text. Since there is NO bit rate options for Quicktime NONE, or TGA or any other options that don’t need a bit rate settings since they are grayed out there seems to be no solution to this. I have tried to go into in setting that uses a bit rate and change it to the highest level, then go back to QT none, or TGA with no luck. I have been using Premiere for 12 years and never had this problem. Every setting has been tried and every singe time it looks exactly the same….like S@#T.
I also think this may also but part of mixing MTS and HDV files with SD files, or quicktime files. Honestly I have tried everything. Where are all my old settings too! I don’t need presets. Is there anyone who has found a solution to this on the mac??? PLEASE!!!!
Thanks, Matt

[Joshua Bernhard]

I’m experiencing this same issue, running Windows XP with SP3.

[Tobias c. Van veen]

Hi everyone, I just wanted to chime in to say I have had the exact same problem, working from source clips of .MOV at Animation quality, 23.976 FPS (as these are animation exports from Flash assembled in Premiere).

The only export setting that has worked for me is direct to H264 (not Quicktime’s H264), where I set the max bitrate quality to 7 and lowest to 4, bumping up the default of 3/6 slightly. This has produced excellent results. However this is a compressed format and I want a lossless export (QT Animation).

Unfortunately the Quicktime exports all produce fuzzy results. Animation produces dropped frames and psychedelic glitches. The QT H264 codec produces fuzzy results as depicted above by Tam.

Compared to QT Pro there appears to be a lack of settings — nowhere to set bitrate (greyed out most of the time) nor are there multi-pass adjustments.

Of note, I did not have this problem in After Effects. The FLV files were all converted to MOV in AE with excellent results as well. So why is Media Exporter having issues? Evidently it’s not QT Pro itself but something to do with the way Media Exporter handles QT codecs.

What is going on here?

As I would like to get an Animation (lossless) quality to my client as a master, any help on *setting bitrates* as hinted at above is certainly welcome.

Or perhaps there is a workaround — export uncompressed DV to 3rd party software? However others have demonstrated bad results with DV export too.

Whazzup, Adobe?

[Johan Hoogendoorn]

same problem here.

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C4D – AE – PS – IL

[John Beal]

to anyone reading.

Do you have Problem exporting Quicktime in Premiere cs4?

fix = update adobe media encoder

https://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4376

peace ; )

[Deepa Vaghela]

I’ve had a similar problem that occurred out of the blue, my recent footage when burnt onto a dvd is pixelated especially when there is any movement.I haven’t changed any adobe premiere or encoder setting on CS4 and this occurs when using 2 separate computers, none of the solutions seem to work, I’m wondering if I have faulty tapes or ilink wires?

[Tam Perl]

I’d be interested to hear whether anyone has had this problem after upgrading to CS5

Thanks

Tam

[Kathy Ruiz]

Thanks so much to everyone who tried to fix this problem. Unfortunately for me nothing hasn’t worked, but I’m still trying… I have CS5 and it just keeps getting pixelated. If anyone has any more ideas they’d be really appreciated.