[Mitch Hardison]

The only setting like the one you are talking about I could find was under Preferences. I went there and checked use high-quality video settings when available. It still played the same way. All the videos that i render straight out of AE look great in quick time though. I don’t think it is the player because it also looks the same in vlc. It is something with premiere I just can’t figure out what. I thought I had done everything to render the file out at the highest quality possible but it does not look very good. Thanks anyway Jeff

[Mitch Hardison]

I tried square pixels but it did not help plus I had black bars at the top and bottom of the video. Here are all the settings I was using.

Quick Time
NTSC DV Widescreen
720×480, 29.97, Progressive, Quality 100
DV/DVCPRO – NTSC
Render at Maximum Depth is checked
Codec Settings: 24 bit
Optimize Stills is checked

I do not know about file organization or timeline format. I applied no effects I just sometimes add the audio in premiere instead of AE because I find it easier to edit that way

[Mitch Hardison]

Thanks, I will try to render in square pixels and see if that helps first. If not I will give you the other info.