"Crisp" Video question

Hi - I notice that my videos that I prepare for online viewing don't look as crisp as say the videos you see on cnn.com (advertisements) or other sites. How sdo they achieve such crisp quality with no fuzziness?
Thanks,
Rob

Well, if the "Use Maximum Render Quality" still fails to give decent output it will, at very least, exponentially increase the rendering time. It seems to use some kind ELA interpolation for deinterlacing and Bicubic Scaling which, especially for small reductions (like 720x480 widescreen -> 640x360), will probably not help significantly.
Download and install (all free):
AviSynth
VirtualDub
Lagarith lossless codec
Next, download and install my hd2sd_sd2hd package for AviSynth (instructions for installation are in the .zip file)
Export your final timeline (as normal) as a DV .avi file from Premiere (assuming NTSC widescreen 720x480, widescreen PAR, 29.97 fps, Lower Field First, 48kHz stereo, etc.) We'll call this dv_output.avi in this example.
Open Windows Notepad and create a new text file. Enter the following into the blank text document and save the text file as cs4resize.avs – in the same folder as your DV .avi file:
# EDIT THESE
filename = "dv_output.avi"
widescreen = true
blend = true
# DO NOT EDIT
Try {
FFMpegSource(filename, atrack=-1)
} Catch(err) {
FFMpegSource(filename)
Crop(8, 0, -8, 0)
ConditionalSmoothBob(DeintMethod=1, OutputColorSpace="YUY2")
(blend) ? Merge(SelectEven(), SelectOdd()) : SelectEven()
ConvertToRGB32()
Spline36Resize(((widescreen) ? 640 : 480), 360)
Edit the parameters to indicate the name of your .avi file, whether the source is 16.9 or 4:3 and whether you would like "blended" deinterlacing or normal interpolaton. (there are benefits to both; it is a matter of taste.)
After saving your modified cs4resize.avs file from Notepad, open VirtualDub
Open cs4resize.avs (this is your "script") in via VirtualDub via File > Open…
Go to the Video > Compression menu and select the Lagarith lossless codec (in VirualDub's codec options (Configure), it is probably best to make sure that Mode is set to RGB (default) and that the Enable Null Frames option is off).
Save your output from VirtualDub by selecting File > Save as AVI…
When VirtualDub has finished, open your resulting Lagarith AVI file in the program of your choice (AME CS4, Squeeze, etc) for conversion to whatever format you want to upload to YouYube

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