Poor Resolution When Animating Still Image with Premiere 6.0

[wrawlind]

Hi,

I have a high resolution .jpg that I am trying to animate with Adobe Premiere 6.0 using the "Motion" option under the "Clip/Video Options/" menus. My image has text that I want to be able to read when I export to video, but Premiere diminishes the image quality so much that the text becomes indecipherable (you can see this in the monitor window as well as in the exported video file). When I use Premiere's "Zoom" function, the poor quality of my image becomes painfully obvious (a comparable zoom on the original .jpg with a standard image viewer yields the clear image that one would expect from a high res pic).

I'm new to video editing, so I apologize if this is a rather basic question, but I couldn't find it discussed elsewhere in the Forum. I assume that somehow I'm not correctly preparing my images for import into Premiere. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.
-Roland

[bugster]

Take a look at this and see if it helps.

[daamon]

Hi wrawlind,

I use Premiere 6.0 too and, unlike Premiere Pro (the tool referred to when you follow bugster's link), I don't believe that it can handle high-res images.

What I believe / suspect happens is that it treats the image resolution as the same as that of the footage (don't know if it has a mx) - probably 720 x 480 / 576 (NTSC / PAL). This'll be why you're losing your clarity.

Also, when I've captured frames from video as stills, the default is 640 x 480 - so, if it's using this, there's even more of an explanation.

The site bugster pointed you to is dedicated to Adobe Premiere and the like, and is a good source of info. I've heard that Premiere Pro is a bit buggy, but I'll let you do your own research / decision making on that one.

Good luck.

[wrawlind]

Thanks for both of your comments.

The wrigleyvideo site is a wealth of really good info and I'm glad to have explored it more on bugster's suggestion. Unfortunately, I don't really have the option to upgrade to Premiere Pro (as used in wrigley's tutorial on how to do exactly what I need to do), so I may need to explore other avenues.

Thanks again.
-Roland

[pijetro]

Why don't you tell us what your settings are in the "Settings Viewer". Go to Project>Settings Viewer.

Your export settings should hopefully be as good or decent as the original clip...

[wrawlind]

pijetro,

Sorry it's taken so long for me to reply to your post. I've been busy on the wrigleyvideo board trying out different approaches (namely using "Image Pan" in Premiere instead of the motion filter).

I'm using Premiere's DV-NTSC/Standard 32kHz preset so here are my settings:

Frame Size: 720x480
Compressor: Microsoft DV (NTSC)
Frame Rate: 29.97
Field Order: Lower Field First
Editing Mode: At first "DV-Playback," then tried "Video for Windows"--same results

Whenever I export to video, I get 2 images superimposed on one another. To say that they're out of focus would be an understatement--"seeing double" is more like it. Another problem I have is that the monitor window doesn't display the image pan effect so I can't actually see how it looks until I export to video.

??

-Roland

[pijetro]

FYI, the Wrigley Video effect for panning high resolution, correct me if i'm wrong, works for Premiere Pro, and not Premiere 6.0..
What's the resolution of your stills??

[wrawlind]

FYI, the Wrigley Video effect for panning high resolution, correct me if i'm wrong, works for Premiere Pro, and not Premiere 6.0..
What's the resolution of your stills??

pijetro,

You are right, but I'm wondering if the way I have things set up is making it worse. I tried using a dedicated image panning software called DigiRostrum (trial version) and got the same results. Furthermore, a friend of mine has lent me his version of Premiere Pro (it's not optimal on my Pentium III, 750 MHz, 512 RAM IBM laptop) and while I haven't tried to export to video, the monitor window appears to give the same "seeing double" results.

As a newbie to video editing, I think I'm doing something fundamentally wrong.

FYI my stills are roughly 3900 x 2000, 72 x 72 pixels / inch.

-Roland

[pijetro]

Just reading some of the comments you made previously....What does the clip look like at no zoom. Are you doing A/B roll? What video track is it on?? What format and size is the .JPG ??

What exactly does your Settings viewer show as capture, project, clip, export ???
Without seeing your timeline, or what you mean more precisely, i can't help you from here.

Sorry...

[wrawlind]

I think I've found a solution to 80% of my problem (although I don't necessarily understand it). My high quality .jpg was created in Photoshop by putting together a series of .gifs. Not only does Premiere treat .jpg's poorly, but even using said .jpg to create a .tif yielded the same problems. However, I discovered that if I instead use the Photoshop .psd file the resolution of the image-panned video is significantly better (slight blurring during moments of "camera movement," near perfect resolution at the still end frames).

Thanks for the help everyone in this thread has given me.

-Roland