Why are my exports ugly?

[Mike Velte]

[Brandon Eckert] “and don’t see anything that says SONY EX?”

Update CS3 to 3.2 and the EX Project presets should be at the bottom of the Projects presets.

[Brandon Eckert]

Alright, I just tried the sony 720p preset you said, and also tried exporting via File > Export > Adobe Media Encoder.

I selected Quicktime > H.624. Settings wise I selected:

Frame Size: 1280×720
Quality: 100
FPS: 59.94
Field Order: None Progressive
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square Pixels (1,0)
Bit Depth: 24-bit (wont allow me to change)
Bitrate: 5.24

I still get bad quality compared to my original. I have bad pixelation of the video even at 100 quality.

[Jon Barrie]

Can you post the video (a small part of it) on a host site? I can only look at it to tell you whats happening.
– Jon Barrie 😉

How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?
http://www.jonbarrie.net

[Mike Velte]

5 mbps seems awful low for HD…try 10, 15 and 20 mbps.

[Brandon Eckert]

Jon Barrie: I will do this when I go home for lunch today at noon.

Mike Velte: The original video is around 5.23 I believe.

[Mike Velte]

AVCHD typically is compressed to about 15- 20 mbps. HDV about 25 mbps. Your little camera compresses to only 5? Is ther no other options in the camera?
I suspect that is the root of your problem…decompressing during editing and recompressing again already very highly compressed files.
I would still try to export at 15 mbps.

[Brandon Eckert]

To my knowledge no. The only settings I can change is if I want 1080p @ 30fps…720p @ 60 fps (59.94), or two low quality videos. The HD compression is done with H.264 on the camera.

I guess my questioning is why does after effects export perfectly?

[Brandon Eckert]

https://niveohosting.com/new_h264.mov

For some reason it appears even though i’m telling Premiere to use 20 bit rate for example…it is doing lower?

[Brandon Eckert]

Alright, here is an update guys. I just tried exporting via the File > Export > Quicktime > H.264…and I get my quality…and I get my non skipping…but the problem is my file size has increased by a ton! My original file size is around 515MB for around 14 minutes…my one minute export is around 500mb.

[David Dobson]

I hate when that happens.

You’ll have to keep fiddling with the bit rate till you get what you want.