6 Replies Latest reply: Apr 18, 2011 5:13 PM by mdubuque RSS

    Terrible Video Quality after dragging and dropping my Sequence from PrPro into Encore

    mdubuque Community Member

      Hello,

       

      I have loaded my sequence into Encore directly from PrPro by dragging it from PrPro and dropping it into Encore.

       

      Now that sequence is successfully loaded on to the timeline.

       

      However, when I play it back the video quality is incredibly jerky, with massive pixelation.

       

      It looks like somehow my default export settings in PrPro could have been set to "preview files" which is weird because I unchecked that box in my export panel.

       

      Here is a screen shot.

       

      Screen shot 2011-04-17 at 1.05.12 AM.png

       

      I'm puzzled.  Is my format being defaulted to "Preview" in the top portion of this export settings window relevant, even though I dragged and dropped the entire sequence from PrPro?

       

      I tried to see if somehow my Encore viewer settings were set to very low resolution, but could not ascertain any way to check.

       

      My footage as it stands now could never be burned to a dvd, it's way too pixelated and herky jerky.

       

      Any thoughts?

       

      I am downconverting from 1920 x 1080 to standard def for the video.  But this seem like really horrific artifacting.

       

      Thanks!

       

      matt Dubuque

        • 1. Re: Terrible Video Quality after dragging and dropping my Sequence from PrPro into Encore
          SupersoulVP Community Member

          Hey Matt.  Hopefully someone will weigh in that actually uses Premier and/or Adobe Media Encoder for making files to bring into dvd projects.  I only did some preliminary tests with AME when we got it, but the dialogue box looks the same as your Premier Export Settings screengrab.

           

          There likely is some much better format to choose rather than "MPEG Preview" which it seems to of defaulted to.  I am not sure what it would exactly be, but the end result is that you want an m2v file to bring into Encore.  If the source file had audio as well, it would be either tossed away, encoded to some format, or passed through, with the end result being an m2v file and an aiff (or something).  Again I don't use AME or Premier, but this could be easily done with the application Bitvice (I think its Mac only) which also will resolve the HD progressive to SD interlaced issue.

           

          You are going from 1920x1080 23.976 to a standard def dvd, so this is a big downconvert to do properly.  That's progressive square pixel video to 1.21 (or .91) PAR NTSC video.  There are lots of posts about people asking if dvd's can be 23.976fps.  Its not that simple.  The video should be encoded so it has pulldown added to the file, which adds the pattern that allows 23.976 video to turn into 29.97fps.

          • 2. Re: Terrible Video Quality after dragging and dropping my Sequence from PrPro into Encore
            mdubuque Community Member

            thanks this is very helpful..  sad but helpful

            • 3. Re: Terrible Video Quality after dragging and dropping my Sequence from PrPro into Encore
              Jeff Bellune CommunityMVP

              Encore CS5 properly adds pulldown to 23.976 fps video assets.

               

              -Jeff

              • 4. Re: Terrible Video Quality after...
                SupersoulVP Community Member

                Hey Matt.  Since it seems that Encore will take in to account adding pulldown for you, just bring in you actual HD movie export and let Encore do the downconvert & encoding.  Make your export out of Premier at whatever codec and size you were cutting in.  It would be called Export > Current Settings in FCP, so there's likely something like that, or choose the approriate one.

                 

                I always bring in my video and audio separately (already dvd or bluray compliant), but if you did want to go down that road, you could bring a file that contains video and audio, and Encore will set it up properly in a timeline.

                • 5. Re: Terrible Video Quality after...
                  Jeff Bellune CommunityMVP

                  Also, wherever you end up doing your transcoding, make sure "Use Maximum Render Quality" is checked.

                   

                  -Jeff

                  • 6. Re: Terrible Video Quality after...
                    mdubuque Community Member

                    Hi Supersould, that option you described is what I recall doing, which produced very difficult results to justify.  i.e. the video quality was terrible.  not sure what i did wrong, hence this post.

                     

                    Jeff, yes, I always use max render quality, thanks.

                     

                    Matt