Better quality render AE or Premiere?

I know this might not be a big deal to some of you but since I have some shorts and feature that are gonna be projected at film festivals I'd like to know if anyone has any ideas.
Since that new 'max render quality' checkmark popped up in the 4.0.1 I don't like rendering out of Premiere. I'd like to know exactly what it does. Obviously that means media we rendered in CS4.0.0 didn't look as good as is could have (and we weren't told) but the big question is WHAT DOES IT DO THAT WASN'T BEING DONE IN CS3 AND IS OR ISN'T BEING DONE IN AFTER EFFECTS? It is slow, slower than AE does that mean it renders better than AE?
Call me overly curious but if I'm rendering a movie or short that gonna be projected on a movie theater screen I want best quality period.
So which one gives the best quality?
Thanks

Go to Sequence > Sequence settings > check the the maximum render quality check box > SAVE (you have to do this before you send to Adobe Media Encoder)
Now render out an uncompressed TIFF still (first frame) or ten seconds of any video as an uncompressed AVI.
Now that the renders done go back and uncheck the 'max render quality' now SAVE (important) then render same way.
Bring the two new files into with your original composition. Zoom in 200-400% toggle between them. The one with 'max render' is different but the other is exactly the same as the original down to the exact pixel what is what we want with uncompressed.
I tried with FX without FX rendered in AE CS3 and 4 and anything uncompressed matches exactly.
Not saying 'max render' makes it look bad just wondering what it's doing. As far as I can tell it does help for resizing and when your compress your video or a lot. Just don't wanna use it for this workflow. Also nice to know your renders are gonna look the same as they did before without checking the button and having to wait 2-3 times as long.

Similar Messages

Must render everything in Premiere Pro before sending to Encore?

I think the answer is no, I DON'T have to have EVERYTHING in the Premiere Pro sequence that I'm sending to Encore completely rendered as I don't think I see any problems BUT am I missing something?
Thanks in advance for guidance here.

Moral: don't walk away! Ha, ha!
All rendering does is create preview files. This helps realtime playback. In the end, you don't want to use those when you transcode (create the actual file that will be used as the final product).
Dynamic link simply creates a link to one of the PR sequences, and when it is time to create the DVD format, Encore (or since CS5 you have the option for Adobe Media Encoder) will transcode the PR sequence into a file that EN will use to "build" the disk.
You need to look at some of the threads on Macs and external drives. Sorry, can't point you to a specific one, but I suspect someone else can.
http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere?view=overview
Edit: Here's a post that explains a bit of this differently. There are lots of particulars, and you have the choice of using your preview files. But the prevailing wisdom is that you get better quality if you use "maximum render quality" which does not use old preview files.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4261546#4261546

Ridiculously long render length in Premiere CC

Hi all!
I posted this on the LinkedIn Premiere boards, but no one really had a true answer. Some nice workarounds, but no real solution. I am working on a MacBook Pro 2.7GHz Intel Core i7, 16GB 1600 MHz DDR3 with an NVIDIA geForce GT 650M 1024 MB card.
Premiere CS6 gave me very few issues. Sure, things were slowish, but workable.
With Adobe Premiere CC, I am hostage to ridiculously long render times for videos. I am currently working on a video that is 2:35 long - that's TWO MINUTES AND THIRTY-FIVE SECONDS!! - with three video tracks, two audio tracks and 15 total applied transitions between the tracks. I selected Render In to Out and have now been waiting over fifty minutes for this to complete.
I have over 140GB open space on my machine.
The source file is HD, 1440x1080 MP4. All other files are placed graphics and MP3 for an audio bed.
How does it take over an hour to render a video that is shorter than three minutes?!
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.

I get that same delay on rendering to network drives but not when rendering to local SSD. Yea but that long 100% delay on h.264 mp4 file rendering is ridiculous. It used to not do that before the previous update before CC 2014. I noticed it a week or two ago.
To the OP, even with simple timelines, any compression may eat up a lot of time... such as rendering to a lossy codec or any codec for that matter. You may be better off rending to a portable hard drive (via usb 3.0 or greater) a lossless master render and then transcode the master instead of using premiere to transcode.. assuming that's your situation... ??

Capture window, Viewer window, better quality then Canvas, why?

Hi there!
Both my capture window and viewer window show the recorded footage in a better quality then in my Canvas once I play it up in the timeline, was wondering why this is, is it simply because it's at 100% of it's size?
I checked the Sequence Settings, they seemed right at DV PAL (I recorded in HDV here in Europe) with quality set to 100%.
Also, by better quality I mean that the footage is brighter, with better sharpness and normal color, on my canvas the lighting is redder, everything is darker and the footage is fuzzier
thanks!

Double click on a suspect clip, it will appear in the viewer...
(a) filters tab - are there any video filters?
(b) motion tab - is scale set to 100% and zeroes everywhere else?
Or simpler: does your clip when on the timeline have a grey bar over it (indicating it needs no render)? If not, what colour is the bar over it?

Quality Render Settings

Hello there!
I used Premiere Pro for a long time and made videos mainly for the web (youtube, vimeo and stuff like that)
Since I finished school a while ago I am doing alot of client work until I find a job.
I always exported my videos with H.264 with 23Mb/s and I liked it in terms of quality and file size. Some of my clients wheren't as happy like my with the outcome and they asked me for a quality render. How do you guys export video for clients?
I asked some friends and they recommended quicktime/png to me. Could someone explain to me how I get the best possible quality while keeping the file size fairly low?
Thanks in advanced and greetings from Germany
Henk K.

The export settings will depend largely on exactly how the export will be used. Blu-ray will need something different than DVD, which won't be the same as broadcast, which will be different than a web delivery, etc.
So...how exactly are these files to be used?

Which yields a better quality slideshow?

Which yields better quality images?
If I "send" my slideshow from iPhoto to iDVD? Or if I start in iDVD and import a slideshow from iPhoto?

It's probably more a matter of personal preference than anything else. Allegedly, a track ripped at aac 128 sounds "better" than a 128 mp3. You should rip a track with which you are familiar in both formats (and perhaps at different bit rates) to see which you like the best.

Which yields better quality images?

Which yields better quality images?
If I "send" my slideshow from iPhoto to iDVD? Or if I start in iDVD and import a slideshow from iPhoto?

That’s the same thing.
The problem is that iPhoto needs to make a movie of the slideshow to export. This inevitably involves compression. Then, when iDVD prepares the movie for burning, it also compresses. Many folks find the quality drop off too great when the material is doubly compressd.
One solution is to create the Slideshow in iDVD, though that has limitations too - no Ken Burns effect, fo instance. But there’s only one layer of compression.
Another way is to create the Movie in +as high a quality as possible+. Some ways to do this: Export the slideshow from iPhoto using the new high quality options. Alternatively, use another app that has more export options - PhotoToMovie, Final Cut Express, perhaps even iMovie HD - to get a high quality movie, and so minimise the impact of the compression.
Regards
TD

Which is better quality for watching a pre downloaded movie airplay or HMDI?

I have the new Retnia. I have an apple tv and high quality HDMI cable. If I want watch a 900P movie from my laptop to my up to 1080p tv which would be more reliable/better quality? BTW the movie is predownloaded so it WOULD NOT be streamming.
Thanks!

My guess is the HDMI cable will yield better quality than AirPlay. Since you already have an HDMI cable and a Mac that supports AirPlay, why not try both for yourself then report back here with your results?

How to i resize a larger 72ppi image to better quality smaller image but for correct size to paste into flyer

Hi, I am trying to resize a larger 16cm wide image saved at 72dpi to a smaller better quality 5cm wide image for invites for an art exhibition I am having. I figure there must be lots of information in the pic given that it is large, I just want to condense it into a smaller image. If I adjust the size to 5 cm wide it changes the dpi to 230 which would be better for printing (the 72 dpi is way too grainy). However when I paste it into the flyer I am making in photoshop it pastes as a massive picture. I then tried to drag the corners in to make it the right size and it became even grainier than a 5cm wide 72dpi image. I hope that makes sense to someone. So basically I need a 5cm wide document size that I can put in my small flyer that is the best quality I can make it! Thanks in advance!

Up-sampling from 72ppi to 300-600ppi can result in blurry images. It's always best to start with a good quality, high resolution image if you can. Go to Image > Image Size. When up-sampling, use Bicubic Smoother setting. When down-sampling, use Bicubic Sharper. See screenshot.
Nancy O.

How to make sound better quality?

So I exported a preview of my animation but the sound isn't high quality. How can I make it better quality? It doesn't sound like when I press Enter in Flash CS5.

Go to the publish preferences and see what bit rate is set for the compression of the audio. Be sure to check both stream and event.

How to increase render speed in premiere pro

Hey Everyone,
Is there a way to speed up the render time in premiere pro? I do realize on my mac the processor isn't the fastest. I have 8 gigs of ram and But, I have all other programs closed, I only have premiere running and I don't have a lot of special effects. I only have some keyframes but nothing complex. Does anyone know what is going on? Every time I make a small change it takes hours to render a small section. When I started this project it didn't take as long. I only select the option to render the change I just made and not the whole video. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advanced and an intel core 2 duo processor which sin't the fastest but for a small change and a simple video 4 hours to render a section is ridiculous and frustrating and this didn't happen before.

There are two primary things you can do to speed up rendering.
1. Get a faster CPU
2. Turn on hardware acceleration. (Or if already turned on, get a faster GPU.)
There are some secondary actions you can also do.
1. Add more memory.
2. Get more/faster hard drives.
And finally a third method which may have some limited application.
1. Avoid QuickTime.

Is m4v better quality than a remuxed MKV file via Subler?

I'm slowly building my home media server and putting my Blu-Ray's onto it. I normally do a Handbrake conversion for ATV3, so the MKV files end up being significantly smaller m4v's and the quality is outstanding. But I recently learned about the quick remux method using Subler, which quickly converts the MKV container into an m4v container without any quality loss and while keeping the same size file. But I noticed that, say, a 29GB MKV file is a much poorer softer picture on my plasma TV than the same movie that's only a 9GB MKV file (remuxed to m4v with subler for streaming over ATV3). I'm running a 300mbps cable modem so the streaming shouldn't be a problem over my home wifi. But I also noticed that the smaller m4v's (say a 3.5GB file that comes from a 9GB MKV file via Handbrake) seem to be slightly better quality than the 9GB file that was remuxed. So it seems like the larger file should be even higher quality -- but I'm getting better results with a smaller file that's Handbrake'd from MKV to m4v.
Is there some sort of streaming setting on the ATV3 that needs to be set or adjusted that will allow the full gorgeous pic quality of a 29GB file to stream right through to it, and look better than the Handbrake'd m4v file? It feels like there's a bottleneck somewhere that's not letting all of the complete picture information through, and an intact, perfect 29GB file should look light years better than that 29GB file Handbrake'd down to 4GB. Trying to figure this out before I continue down this home media server path cuz it's a lot of work to do these Blu's one at a time.
Kirby

I have no experience of the remuxing you describe, but interesting observations.
There is nothing you can adjust on AppleTV - it will either play the encoded movie or it won't.
AppleTv's generally playback the h264 codec (in an m4v container) - there are many many versions/levels of this codec and each generation of AppleTv has been able to play slightly more sophisticated versions.
I suspect but cannot prove that the issue you notice is due to AppleTV attempting to support advanced h264 features but making compromises which affect playback quality - in other words it is cutting corners to playback advanced h264 profile features rather than refusing. Handbrake on the other hand has time at its disposal - it has been refined over many years by dedicated enthusiasts so if a simple remux is all that's required i'd be surprised they have not implemented that. Instead I suspect it more accurately processes enhanced h264 features before transcoding into a new smaller m4v file. Equally there might be settings in HB which artificially sharpen or otherwise alter the video which you prefer. I'd compare the BluRay tothe remuxed or HB versions to attempt to decide which was more faithful to the original but even then it would be dependent on the BluRay player's settings in some cases.

What gets better quality for watching video.. airplay mirroring or HDMI cable

I have the new Retnia. I have a apple tv and high quality HDMI cable. If I want watch a 900P movie from my laptop to my up to 1080p tv which would be more reliable/better quality? BTW the movie is predownloaded so it WOULD NOT be streamming.
Thanks!

My guess is the HDMI cable will yield better quality than AirPlay. Since you already have an HDMI cable and a Mac that supports AirPlay, why not try both for yourself then report back here with your results?

Better quality, export specific settings via quicktime or in sequence setti

I am wondering, since I am recording video at 1080 HD on my canon hf10, would I get better quality if I IMPORTED the footage into final cut AT FULL HD QUALITY (1080) and edit in FCP at 1080 and then EXPORT to a 720p setting for youtube OR would I get better quality in changing the SEQUENCE PRESET to a 720p setting in FCP and work with it as 720?

I don't think that there would be any quality difference if you cut in 1080 versus the destination 720. Just cut it in 1080 and then convert to 720 when going to youtube. You'll have a higher res copy for any future use.
If there is any quality difference, which I doubt there would be, it would probably be so minute, especially since it is web video.

Should I Use An External Burner For Better Quality With Macbook Pro?

Hey I have a macbook pro and used IDVD to burn a movie but near the end it freezes and kinda skips a bit and I was wondering cause it takes two to three hours to burn will using an external burner be better quality?

will using an external burner be better quality?
Ext. Burners tolerate burning multiple copies with fewer read / write errors better than the stock internal S-Drive that come built into many mac laptops. Stock drives heat up faster than external burners do for the most part. So the answer is, it's very possible you will get slightly better results with an external burner as opposed to an internal laptop S-Drive when burning back to back copies.
I recommend using Verbatim Dvd-r media and burning from a disc image at 4x or slower for best results.

Better quality render AE or Premiere?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for