Blurry stills on Playback

I know I am probably missing something very simple. I am using Premire Elements 9 and when I play my show the stills are blurry but if I pause it the are crystal clear. How do I fix it?

Welcome to the forum.
What are the pixel x pixel dimensions of your Still Images? This ARTICLE goes into some detail, on quality of Still Images, and Scaling for use in Video.
Good luck,
Hunt

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this NEVER would have been solved if TW didn't solve it LOL! THANK YOU! in 1999 i was a windoz user and i wanted to make some movies. windoz required me buying special "media disks", special software, extra powerful mother board... and a friend in the media business said, "get the new imac dv with imovie 1". for the next 5 years i made incredible movies using the sony mini dv tapes and mac. people thought i was a professional but the simplicity of the imac dv was the genius (and it's creators). i started using fcp a few years back always made frame stills, i've never had a problem and never heard of "interlacing" until tom's post above. i don't think i just set this as a default? and i don't know why anyone would want interlacing if it makes your still frames/movies blurry LOL! i can read up on it later.
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#2 Playback is blurry
Shane's Stock Answer #2:
ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL NTSC MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.
1. Disable overlays on the canvas
2. Make sure you've rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24787
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epileptic seizures....
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in the forum.
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Blurry Stills and Titles

Hello everyone,
I am new to the forum so go easy on me
I have used Premiere in the past and just recently came back to it. I have Premiere CS 5.5. I just created a very simple sequence consisting of stills and a few titles that I created with the Title tool. The stills are hi res images, yet when I render out the project, they are no where near as clear as they should be.
The Image sizes are 576x 874
I am using the motion effect to move across some of the images.
I am exporting to H.264 so that I can post it on our You Tube channel
I have tried resizing in Photoshop and that didnt work. I have tried to de-interlace, that didnt work.
I have exported the media out and played it back and it still looks blurry. I am viewing on a flat screen computer monitor.
I know there have been countless posts about this, but I have tried what seems to have worked for the others and I have not been as successful.

Once the Sequence has been set, it stays. Just create a New Sequence, per your desired attributes, and then Copy your Assets, pasting them into the New Sequence. For Titles, I would NOT Copy/Paste those, but create them anew. The new Titles will be created to match the New Sequence.
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Blurry Still Photos in PE 9 (Windows XP –SP3)

When I take sharp still photos, at any resolution and in any format (tif, jpg, psd), they look sharp on a standard def. TV from a burned DVD with a Project Setting of NTSC-DV – Standard (4:3) ONLY. Using NTSC-DV – Wide Screen or NTSC – Hard Disk, Flash Memory Camcorder Standard or Wide-Screen, the stills are slightly, but definitely, blurry. Not a problem if I just want a DVD of stills, but a problem combining video (my camcorder is memory card, std. def., wide-screen) with stills. The video looks nice and sharp. Any suggestions? Thank you

Hi all. I want to thank each of you for taking the time to continue to help me. I really appreciate your efforts.
To minimize duplicate responses, I am pointing each of you to this response. I hope I address all of your comments.
First, I am viewing the photos on a 2 NTSC TV’s. One is a traditional CRT picture tube, the other is a rear projection from individual color CRT’s. I will be checking them out on a state-of-the-art LED-LCD in a few days. Simply, when I set the Project Setting to NTSC-DV Standard Definition 4:3 (meaning full screen 640x480) the stills look quite good.
The problem occurs when I use the Project Settings listed as NTSC-Hard Drive Camcorder, etc. (meaning mpg coming into PE9 like via a card based camcorder (mine is std def)) Wide-Screen 16:9 with input set by PE9 as 720x480. The still photos are recomposed with black bands on each side (either by me manually in PS9 or by PE9 automatically – no difference in image projection). I want to use this setting since I want to combine widescreen video with 3:2 still images in the same project. These are distinctly blurry, but not horrendously so. (I know, not a very scientific/objective description)
And, while I agree with comments made regarding down-rezing, my actual tests showed the best results from a large 3000+ x 2000+ pixel tif file than from any other size and format (I have tried many combinations). In fact, 480 pixel (height) jpg looked to me just slightly better than 480 (height) psd, which made no sense given that psd is supposed to be lossless and jpg is lossy (although I used the least compression available).
Re. interlacing, I did freeze frame and there was a slightly better image displayed, but not as good as the full screen not frozen. I have not yet tried what I would normally consider excessive sharpening to compensate for the still image problem. However, this is still troubling given that full screen looked good.
I am gong to continue to test as time permits, but I wonder if there are 2 compounding problems. First, NTSC TV has 1440 lines of scan, exactly, 3 times 480 pixels, whereas, based on my calculations, 16:9 widescreen letterbox does not yield the number of scan lines an integral multiple of 480. Second, PE9 lists widescreen as 720x480, yet if I take a pixel height of 480, 16:9 should yield a width of 853. While I understand CRT TV’s cut off part of the picture, that oversized width from 720 seems a bit high. (I also know that some number of scan lines are not used in the image, but don’t remember whether these are within the 1440 or in addition to.)
Ted, you mentioned that the stills should be multiples of 640x480 up to 1920x1440. Why not 1920x1080 which gives the 16:9 widescreen format? I have not tried these numbers yet, but will when I get back home.
One last complication is that a project setting of NTSC-Hard Drive, full screen 4:3, was also blurry. I would be willing to believe there is a problem with PE9’s resizing calculations or an issue with using the “right” pixel resolution for widescreen if all full screen settings looked good and only wide screen looked poor.
I know that’s a lot to digest, but better more info than less. And, again, thank you very much for your help.

Blurry still images

having trouble importing a clear still image into projects. Im working in DV PAL format Frame size 720 x 576 (1.067) The problem is my stills are in JPEG 3072 x 2304 and 250 dpi so when i convert them to fit project frame size they become blury!! One thing i have noticed is when image is in preview window and i left click on it , it becomes clear ? Any ideas how i can achieve a clear pic in my movies? Thanks

Do you have your program monitor set to "draft quality"?
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JPHP,
It works...
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