Blurry video on export

[beckerss19]

I'm trying to export my video from premiere to an FLV
my video size is 720x480, I need to export at 480x320 whenever I try to export the video it gets VERY blurry.

HELP!

[poisondeathray]

What settings? Try a higher bitrate

[beckerss19]

I have it set at

480x320, same as source (fps)
mpeg layer III (mp3), 96 (kbps), stereo
VBR 1300 (kbps)

I just gets blurry even if i resize the video by anything, even 1 pixel

[jagabo]

Small colored text on a colored background?

[beckerss19]

Yes, but when I made the video last year - I made it in adobe premiere cs3, and it produced beautifully, no hitches or anything.

I'm using cs4 right now and its literally giving me a coronary!!! ahhh!! all i changed was one word!

its set up like a news video, theres a person talking and then it switches between screen captures of a program so theres a lot going on, but that shouldn't effect how it produces if the settings are right, right?

[jagabo]

Post sample shots. Or video.

[poisondeathray]

are you using the same project and source files ?

are you sure you are using same settings?

are you using vp6? or spark?

did you select quality=>best in the advanced settings ?

2pass VBR or 1 pass CBR ? 2pass VBR would be better

MRQ in the fly out menu ?

[beckerss19]

i'm not sure that i can show yo uthe video

[beckerss19]

i'm using the same source files the only difference is the upgraded cs3, to cs4

not sure if the settings are the same it was a year ago =(

and i have no idea what any of that stuff is =)

[poisondeathray]

i'm using the same source files the only difference is the upgraded cs3, to cs4

not sure if the settings are the same it was a year ago =(

and i have no idea what any of that stuff is =)

Twirl down the menus in the video settings and try to answer the questions - because that "stuff" is what helps to determine the quality of the video.

Are you using AME for this ? or exporting directly out of PP? In CS4, you will get better results from AME

[beckerss19]

whoa sorry. give me a minute this computer is a piece. i'll send a screen shot

[beckerss19]

thats the source screen, you can see how i'm trying to crop it to square instead of widescreen

[beckerss19]

quality when i resize

[beckerss19]

my settings

[poisondeathray]

Is your source widescreen DV-AVI ?

Personally, I would export it as is (interlaced, not resized, and a lossless format like uncompressed or lagarith), then use 3rd party programs to deinterlace , crop, resize and encode. PP has a very low quality deinterlacer and soft resizer. It is somewhat improved in CS5, but pretty bad in CS4. I skipped CS3, so I cannot comment on that

Here is a comparison of the quality . This was on native progressive footage, it's even worse (if you can believe that) on interlaced footage
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/313532-Greenscreen-alphachannel-export-problems-FLV...=1#post1938206

[beckerss19]

what 3rd party software do you recommend?

because then i'll tell of another problem i'm having when i try to just export the video as an high res AVI or MOV...it comes out completely distorted

i'll attach a screen shot

[beckerss19]

shes very squisheD!


I REMOVD THE IMAGE. IF YOU NEED T SEE AGAIN LET ME KNOW

[poisondeathray]

I would recommend doing the transformations through avisynth, but the learning curve is a bit steep (it's all in code) , and I would recommend x264 as the encoder ; you can wrap it in flv container if you want (most people use mp4) . I'll try to think of an easy way and get back to you

Are you sure your format dimension goal is 480x320 ? that is 1.5 DAR and doesn't make sense from a 1.778 DAR source (or is this why you are cropping) ?

[beckerss19]

the dimension i need is 480x320, i know that was a mistake now to do it that way but thats how it is and it can't be changed.
but yes thats why i was cropping it

i'll give it a try thanks so much!

[beckerss19]

is it possible to delete the images i posted on here?

[poisondeathray]

yes you can, just edit your posts. I've got to run, but I'll try to think of an easier way that still gives good quality, and get back to you later today

the other problem with premiere is the deinterlacing quality - you can see the client's hair has diagonal stair-steppy jaggies (it looks like she crimped her hair) - those are deinterlacing artifacts. This is another reason to use avisynth. Ideally you would have deinterlaced with avisynth then keyed out the footage (actually ideally you would have shot progressive native)

[jagabo]

You can edit your posts and delete the images.

[beckerss19]

thanks guys!
this video has been a nightmare. you can probably tell i'm not a video person!

[jagabo]

Here is a comparison of the quality . This was on native progressive footage, it's even worse (if you can believe that) on interlaced footage
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/313532-Greenscreen-alphachannel-export-problems-FLV...=1#post1938206

Those were astoundingly bad results from AME!

[poisondeathray]

shes very squisheD!

RE: "squished"

The problem is you are cropping before resizing, and you should be resizing to a square pixel format with 16:9 AR , then cropping. Your source format (I'm guessing it's DV-AVI widescreen) doesn't use square pixels

If you deinterlace, then resize to 560x320 using square pixels, that will give you DAR 1.75, but it should be close enough to the proper widescreen 1.778 DAR. Then you crop 40 left and 40 right pixels to give you 480x320

First I would export a lossless intermediate from AME (microsoft avi, compression none) , leave it interlaced. You can use lossless compression if you want (e.g. lagarith, huffyuv, ut video codec). If you have limited HDD space, you can use DV-AVI, but you will take a slight quality hit due to the compression loss

One easy way to do this would be to use xvid4psp; it comes with avisynth plugins and you can edit the script by using avisynth=>edit filtering script. You can read & learn about avisynth later when you have more time

AVISource("video.avi")
ConvertToYV12(interlaced=true)
AssumeBFF()
YadifMod(mode=0,order=0, edeint=nnedi2(field=0))
LanczosResize(560,320)
Crop(40,0,-40,0,true)

You choose a different deinterlacer, but yadifmod + nnedi2 will give decent qualty (much better than premiere), but it is a bit slow . You can use even slower higher quality deinterlacers (e.g. TempGaussMC_beta2() ), but they are not included in the xvid4psp package

I would use x264 encoding for video and AAC for audio. There are dozens of settings for x264, but you can use one of the presets for now, and read about what the settings do later on.

Most streaming software should allow mp4 container. In your earlier screenshots, you were using .f4v (which is a modified mp4 container), so I would expect .mp4 would be ok for you. xvid4psp doesn't allow h.264 in flv muxing, but you can re-mix with ffmpeg after if you still need flv container. Double check to see what your requirements are first (i.e. check to see if mp4 container is ok with your streaming front end - it should be, most streaming sites use it)

[beckerss19]

I just got CS3 put back on my computer i'm going to try all this, i'll let you know if it works!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!