PP CS4 rendering poor quality

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PP CS4 rendering poor quality

Posted by John Lawton on June 19, 2009 at 6:30 pm

I am using Premiere Pro CS4 and have completed my project. There is a red line along the top of the timeline window which I believe is the indication that it requires to be “rendered”. Before rendering and monitoring the timeline footage on the Program Monitor as well as a calibrated external Sony Monitor the footage on the timeline is “crisp and clean”. Once rendered the footage is less sharp and has lost it’s vibrance, slightly foggy, hope this makes sense. When imported into Encore and burn to disc the DVD is of very poor quality in fact I would state that it is a step backwards.

Any help much appreciated and will supply settings if you can let me know what is needed to solve the problem.

Forgot to mention it’s a PAL Widescreen Project in standard definition.

Regards

John

Jeff Brown replied 16 years, 11 months ago 4 Members · 9 Replies
9 Replies

David Dobson
June 19, 2009 at 11:18 pm

What are your sequence settings?
John Lawton
June 20, 2009 at 7:22 am

Hi David,

Sequence Settings

General:
Editing Mode: DV PAL
Timebase: 25.00 frames/second

Video:
Frame size 720 x 576 16:9
Pixel aspect ratio: D1/DV PAL Widescreen 16:9 (1.4587)
Field: Lower Fields First
Display Format: 25fps Timecode

Audio:
Sample Rate: 48000Hz
Display Format: Audio Samples

Video Previews:
Preview File Format: Microsoft AVI DV PAL
Codec: DV PAL

Selected:
Maxium Bit Depth & Maxium Render Quality

Playback Settings:
Realtime Playback
24p Conversion Method
Interlaced (2:3:3:2) selected

External DV: None

Aspect Ratio Conversion: Hardware (if supported)

Desktop Audio selected

Export:
External Drive: None

Selected disable video output when in the background

Many thanks David.

Regards

John
David Dobson
June 20, 2009 at 2:41 pm

What is your source video?
The red line does indicate that rendering is needed. It also means that the source footage is different than the sequence settings – i.e. it’s not standard def widescreen DV PAL.
John Lawton
June 20, 2009 at 8:43 pm

Hi David,

The orignal footage was HDV 1080 PAL Widescreen downconverted in Sony S270 to SD PAL Widescreen.

Many thanks,

John
Jeff Brown
June 20, 2009 at 10:22 pm

And what are you rendering _to_ ? (on the way to Encore)

-jeff
John Lawton
June 22, 2009 at 4:17 am

Hi Jeff,

Yes, rendering for use in Encore.

Many thanks.

John
Eric Jurgenson
June 22, 2009 at 1:09 pm

Isn’t SD PAL upper field first?
John Lawton
June 22, 2009 at 1:28 pm

Hi Eric,

I have just checked the presets available.

DV SD-PAL Widescreen Lower Fields First
Matrox SD-PAL Widescreen Upper Fields First

Many thanks.

John
Jeff Brown
June 22, 2009 at 1:47 pm

[John Lawton] “DV SD-PAL Widescreen Lower Fields First
Matrox SD-PAL Widescreen Upper Fields First”

Well, one of those is gonna be wrong for your project. I also think SD PAL is upper-field first. (I’m in NTSC land)
My question about what are you rendering TO was about the codec used: MPEG-2? MPEG-4? What compression settings? What’s the bitrate?

These are the things that will make a big impact on the final quality.

-Jeff

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