Poor video quality after importing to Adobe Premiere Elements

[Jooon]

Hi!

I have trouble with video quality after editing my clips (filmed with my JVC Everio GZ-MG21E) in Adobe Premiere Elements.

I guess the quality is OK for "normal" filming but this time I filmed a hockey game where there is a lot of rapid movements. When the clips are imported to Premiere (as .mod out of the camera) I think I can see the quality getting a bit worse. Fast moving players have "wavy", contures. And when I export the clips to a DVD or .avi the players appear jagged. Like the video consists of too few frames per second. (Premiere says the imported .mods has 25 fps.) Not so rapid movements appear fine.

When I watch the .mods after transfering the from camera to hard drive, the quality is great. So it looks like something happens when importing to Premiere.

I've put down quite a few hours editing this film and got pretty disappointed with the video quality when I watched the DVD I made...

A newbie like me would appreciate some help!

[lordsmurf]

As I understand it, these are MPEG videos (with a .MOD extension, for no real reason). More likely than not, you're using a high compression setting (longer running time) that is basically VCD quality, with lots of jaggies from deinterlacing. Use the highest quality settings.

Premiere Elements is also optimized for DV video. Anything else really does not work in the Elements version.

[edDV]

Further,

The JVC Everio GZ-MG21E is probably among the worse choices for sports since it encodes fairly low quality MPeg2 in real time to the drive. MPeg2 needs lots of motion analysis to get reasonable results and the Everio is fairly weak in motion analysis.

That said, you say the resulting MPeg2 looks OK on your computer and Premiere Elements makes it worse.

First issue, MPeg2 degrades with each decompression - recompression. That is a given unless you use a native MPeg2 editor that only decompresses frames within the GOP or filtered frames.

Premiere Elements may not be the best way to edit MPeg2 but it can be converted into a quality MPeg2 solution. Check the Mainconcept MPeg2 plug-in for Elements. $59
http://www.mainconcept.com/site/index.php?id=6887

Good luck. This seems to be made for you. Please feed back results on how the demo works for your case.

[TheFamilyMan]

Premiere Elements may not be the best way to edit MPeg2 but it can be converted into a quality MPeg2 solution. Check the Mainconcept MPeg2 plug-in for Elements. $59
http://www.mainconcept.com/site/index.php?id=6887

Thanks edDV...this just made my day. I've archived all my family footage to MPEG2 files with the idea I'll do something useful with them some day, and I also own Premiere Elements 3 of which I was unhappy about the decode/recode thing (but no more). Looks like this supports 1/2 D1 MPEG2 output...Yay!

[edDV]

Premiere Elements may not be the best way to edit MPeg2 but it can be converted into a quality MPeg2 solution. Check the Mainconcept MPeg2 plug-in for Elements. $59
http://www.mainconcept.com/site/index.php?id=6887

Thanks edDV...this just made my day. I've archived all my family footage to MPEG2 files with the idea I'll do something useful with them some day, and I also own Premiere Elements 3 of which I was unhappy about the decode/recode thing (but no more). Looks like this supports 1/2 D1 MPEG2 output...Yay!

I've only seen this at trade shows. Let me know how the demo performs.

[Jooon]

OK, thanks for your help!

I would have tried it if the plug-in would have been freeware but since this is just a hobby project and I'm a poor student the video will have to do as is.

At least I now know how to solve it - thanks!

[lordsmurf]

Premiere Elements may not be the best way to edit MPeg2 but it can be converted into a quality MPeg2 solution. Check the Mainconcept MPeg2 plug-in for Elements. $59
http://www.mainconcept.com/site/index.php?id=6887

About freaking time! This did not exist mid last year, mere months ago. The other MainConcept Premiere plug-in only worked with the "full" versions of Premiere.

[Jooon]

This is weird. When i play the DVD I made in Windows Media Player 10 the quality is much better than when i play the disc on my Philips DVD player or CyberLink PowerDVD on my computer.

[Jooon]

Can anyone help by explaining that to me. The result, the DVD is suddenly OK viewed with WMP, but not on my DVD/TV.