exporting/loss of quality premiere pro

[neonblue05]

I finished a short video i made which i captured the clips digitally via firewire. Now, when i export it, the picture comes out somewhat pixalated and less quality than even when i record to vhs at school (and everything at school is anolog!!) Well, ive played with the options (video compression, etc) i made sure it was set at 100% quality output but still i have yet to export my video with any satisfactory quality. I did everything digital, shouldnt the quality be much better than using analog sources...i mean im kinda disappointed.

[Marc Peters]

It would help if you explained:

a) what settings you have used - compressor (codec), framesize, bitrate to name a few

b) how you intend to distrubute your film - over the web, via email, on DVD, on CD, just for your own use on your harddrive, to be played in a standalone. This has a HUGE bearing on the quality/file size trade off.

c) the specifications of your PC

Infact, this question can't be answered without at least the answers to those questions

[neonblue05]

I'm using - 1800 + Athlon, 512 mb ddr, 80 gig hard 8mb cache, radeon 9200 graphics card

Frame size - 720h 480v

Frame Rate 29.97

Pixel Aspect Ratio D1/DV NTSC (.9)

Depth - Millions, Quality: 100%

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It would be cool to know what half those things are and what they do to, thanx so much for helping me

[Marc Peters]

And what country are you from?

[tongachutt]

And where were your parents born?


Tell me, NOW!

[Marc Peters]

Oops, guess that could be construed as a tad personal. It's just that you wouldn't believe the amount of times we've had the old PAL/NTSC question - and that resolves it straight away

[neonblue05]

United States lol, NTSC all the way here

[Marc Peters]

It could just be less than impressive microsoft DV codec mon playback. Try transcoding your created DV AVI to MPEG2 and checking the quality of that.