adobe premiere 1.5 soft video problems

[pyrofire]

Hi, i have a small problem with adobe premiere 1.5, in the preview window, all my videos appear to be soft looking, draft is on best and even when i render and view, they are still slightly soft and have lost their sharpness, since im making gaming videos this is a bit of a problem and i wondered if theres anyway to fix it, in camtasia where the avis where shot they retain all their sharpness so its definitly something premiere is doing.

thanks

[Baldrick]

Please give us more information.

what video frame size/resolution are you outputting to?
what video codec are you outputting to?
what is the source frame size/resolution?

and can you post a screenshot from the source and the output? use for example mpc, file->save image.

[edDV]

Camtasia Studio is an editor as well. What are you expecting to do in Premiere 1.5?

Normal practice is to create your project in full resolution then compress later. It seems like you are asking Premiere to open an already compressed video.