[Chris Bayliss]

Had it originally set to Fit but tested using 100% and also set to full resolution the whole time. I’ve done test exports to make sure its not the monitor as well but no matter where I play it, I get pixelation. I made a HD timeline just to test it out and despite being set to DV Pal settings (i.e. the original graphic size was 720 x 576 1.46 aspect ratio or 1024 x 576 square pixels) it looked BETTER in the HD timeline even when upscaled then it did in the SD timeline. There was no major pixelation in HD, just minor pixelation that made the edges not crisp.

[Chris Bayliss]

UPDATE:
I got fed up of trying endless numbers of different effects, exported from Premiere and took the 2 projects as a .mov into final cut. I then tried the same graphics that refused to work in Premiere and they worked fine in Final Cut even though I used versions that were probably slightly off in some aspect anyway (I even had to stretch 1 of them and it was STILL fine).

Why am I getting horrible graphics on Prem Pro suddenly? We’ve used premiere for years with no issue but the update to CS5 seems to have thrown the ability to make simple graphics work out the window :-S

[Chris Bayliss]

Thanks for the reply! Sorry for the lack of information before.

Computer 1 (issues 1 and 2)
ACPI Multiprocessor X-64 Based PC
ATI Radeon HD 4800
Intel Xeon CPU E5530 @ 2.4GHz
5.98gb RAM
Windows XP

Computer 2 and 3 (issue 3)
ACPI Multiprocessor X-64 Based PC
AMD Radeon HD 6900
Intel Xeon CPU E5620 @ 2.4GHz
2.99gb RAM
Windows XP

Both are using adobe creative suite 3.

As for timeline and capture settings I’m working off a DV Pal Widescreen 16:9 (1.422) setting on both capture and timeline, running at 25 fps. The footage is all DV Pal shot on mini-dv tape.

Cheers for the overheating idea – I’ll check that with IT when they head over!