Posted by pwilleke on 11/24/06 15:04

Well, I'm new to this kind of technology, so forgive me if I ask
questions that seem rather stupid :-)

I don't know the exact camera type, the footage was shot with the
camera's of two colleagues.
It was on the kick-off weekend of our company. I placed the original
footage on my pc using FireWire (this was already 1,5 year ago).

I created a new project in Premiere 6, I think the only thing I changed
was choosing PAL. the rest I left on default values.

When I created the AVI, 1,5 year later, I just did Create Movie, didn't
change anything here either.

But I do know the quality is a whole lot worse.

Is there anything I can look-up in Premiere to give you more info? If
yes, where do I find it?

Thanx a million for helping me out on this one!
I have to present the movie on the next company perty, and I would like
to leave a good impression, just for the sake of honour.

Regards,
Peeke
Richard Crowley schreef:

> <pwilleke@gmail.com> wrote ...
>
> > I was working on a video that I imported from the camera.
> > The AVI (2 in fact) looks very good, it is of high quality, even on my
> > computer screen.
>
> AVI is only a container metaphor. We don't know what
> codec was used by your camera and/or your capture
> process? We also don't know what kind of camera you
> are talking about? Can we assume it is a real video camera
> and not video from your phone or from a still digital camera?
> Is it a DV camera? Did you use Firewire to capture, etc?
>
> > Ik cut the file up, added transitions, added music, .... All this with
> > Premiere 6.
> >
> > However, the AVI that I rendered with Premiere looks bad. The quality
> > is even worse than VHS.
> > Whenever there is a fast moving (or even not so fast) part in the
> > movie, the image gets stripes.
>
> > It's like when an arm is moved pieces of teh arm stay behind in the
> > movement.
> > I don't know how te explain the behaviour in a better way.
>
> Sounds like a problem with interlace and field sequence.
> Try reversing the field order.
>
> > Afterwards I converted the AVI to MPG2 with TMPGenc and I wrote it to
> > DVD after converting the files to VOB etc....
>
> If we assume that your AVI is from a DV camera,
> and the MPG2 is something like what is used for
> DVD discs, then by definition MPEG2 will look
> worse than DV-AVI because it has a great deal of
> video irretrievably compressed out of it.

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