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Rendering/exporting issues with PPro CS4/AME with new monitor
Hi,
Hopefully I can explain this clearly. I have been using PPro CS4 to edit computer game footage for some time now, and it’s been working great. But I am currently having problems after getting a new LCD monitor and I can feel my ability to render these files properly slipping away from me.
Previously I had a monitor with a native res of 1680×1050. I would record footage at this res, then import these files into an uncompressed (desktop) 720p timeline, using the “Scale to Frame Size” option for the 1680 clips. I would then render out at the same 720p settings and they would look great both on my HDD and on Youtube.
Recently I replaced this monitor with an LCD which displays at 1920×1080. So, now I record at this resolution. However, I found that using the same timeline and the “Scale to frame size” option produced significantly lower quality video. Is this because there is more scaling being done to the 1920×1080 video than the previous 1680? I’ve attached a screen capture to illustrate (1680/720 on the left, 1920/720 on the right).
Since then I’ve set up a new timeline which matches the frame size of the video exactly (1920×1018, as it’s windowed). This produces great quality rendered h.264 video, but the youtube quality is again pretty undesireable compared to what I used to get from my old 1680×1050 monitor editing. In addition it has gray artifacting at the beginning of the clip (probably a youtube problem).
I guess what I’m getting at is at this point I’m trying a million different render settings when I used to have it set up so nicely. Put simply, how would you best handle setting up a timeline for 1920×1018 video? Am I missing a setting causing the 720p final render to look so poor, or is that just what it is (and I should render it in 1080p instead?)
Thanks for reading.
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Mark,
you are correct in your assumption. The higher the resolution a clip and the finer the text the less legible it will become once it is forced into less pixel space. This is just the way resolution works. It appears the LCD upgrade was a downgrade in your projects final clarity.If you are recording in 1080p then you should output in 1080p anything less will be soft.
When I make video tutorials I force my screen to a 1280×800 or 1280×720 res because the text size is based on the resolution of the screen I am working/recording in. 1080p res based text, when watched on youtube at 360p or 480p looks too soft for viewers so I made the sacrifice.
Jon 😐
Jon Barrie
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Thanks Jon. I think for my recording purposes in that case I’ll just drop back down to 720p raw files. Such is life. I think I have a better understanding of everything now, which is always good. 🙂
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