Export low quality in first 7 seconds

Hello again,
after i installed Premiere Pro CC the issue is now in the first seconds i get only a poor quality after then the picture is clear.
What the heck is this for an issue???
I´ve uploaded this to the cloud but cant change the privacy mode.
Slowly i get more and more anger cause nothing works right!!!!

Hello Olly,
this is only for the first few seconds then its clear with no artefacts.
I run Premiere Pro for some month and had never any issues but with the newer versions
the probs has just started.
The Moon pic is 1250 x 1250 i tried to export this in 720p and 1080 p with the same results.
The first few seconds you get square pixels and then you get a clear picture.
This had never happend before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVd8fERBvFk

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• Goto Spotlight and set the rest of them under Integrity (not to be scanned)
• Set screen-saver to a folder without any photo - then make an active corner (up right for me) and set
pointer to this - turns on screen saver - to show that it has nothing to show
• No File Vault on - Important
• NO - TimeMachine - during iMovie/iDVD work either ! IMPORTANT
• Lot's of icons on DeaskTop/Finder also slows down the Mac noticeably
• Start a new User-Account and log into this and iMovie get's faster too - if a project is in a hurry
• And let Mac run on Mains - not just on battery
Yours Bengt W

Final rendering of video is low quality and too bright

Here is the link to my original video clip, the video clip in the project, and the final rendered copy all on my monitor at the same time:
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t63/shadon1nja/FixingRenderQuality_zps124306a5.png
Here is the text of each video when fullscreened screened:
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t63/shadon1nja/RenderText_zpsd1240701.png
The picture got downsised which makes it harder to see the issue,but here is most of the it:
The final copy is lower quality and way too bright. Noticibly too bright. The clean darks turn into rough gray, and the quality is noticibly lower as well. I have checked the "use maximum render quality" and tried exportiing in AVI and MP4, and nothing is fixing it. Any ideas?

First of all, what type of file do you need? If you're looking for lossless quality then I would suggest exporting a quicktime file with the Animation codec or some other lossless codec. However, these type of files are huge and they might not play back on your desktop. But, if you're just going to put this video on the internet when you're finished with it then I would suggest starting with one of the Youtube or Vimeo H.264 presets and modifying it to match your clip. It still won't look as good as your original, but you can't expect miracles when working in SD and exporting to H.264, which is a very lossy codec to begin with. If you want to try exporting to a lossless Quicktime or AVI, then change the settings so they look something like this:

IDVD exporting low resolution

I made 5 slideshows on iMovie and exported them HD quality, and they look great on my iMac.
I put them on a basic iDVD menu and burnt them onto a DVD (burnt 3 seperate disks as best performance, high quality AND professional quality) and the entire thing looks pixely and unprofessional.
It's not only my slideshows, the menu is blurry also! How do I fix this? These are for a wedding client and I would hate to have to give them this low quality DVD.
Suggestions?
Thank You!

Hi
There are many things to this.
• Your Mac is capable to show much higher quality than what anyone with any program can put on a playable DVD - AS DVD is a standard limited to SD-Video - There are no HD DVD at all (only a short time in history and to be played on a few very rare Toshiba HD-DVD players)
• Then when understanding what's possibly with DVD - One can get better or worse of this too.
To get an as bad result possibly (who wouldn't like this) one Use - iMovie'08 or 09 or 11 as they only deliver every second line over to iDVD (called interlaced video - as what's on a DVD) and to make this even more worse one selects to do this Export by using "Share to iDVD" within iMovie - as iMovie now will render it and does this SO BAD.
To get an as good result possibly with DVD I do
• Use a video-editor that Export 100% of the interlaced material to iDVD as iMovie up to HD6 or any version of FinalCut (or FotoMagco™ - for SlideShows)
• I DO - Share to Media Browser and as Large (not HD) - If I have to use iMovie 08 to 11 - as this give a better resul. In iMovie up to HD6 I just import the movie project from within iDVD - now iDVD will render and so much better.
• I use High quality DVDs - only Verbatim (Never ever Memorex or alike)
• I use DVD-R
• I set down burn speed in iDVD/Preferences/Advance to x4 - as these DVDs plays so much better on many more devices.
• I secure a minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-Up Hard disk - No other hard disk can be addressed to keep this space for iDVD and Mac OS temp.files
If You need better than SD-DVD quality then You need to look into
• Blu-Ray (Roxio Toast™ 11 Pro incl BD-component, BD-burner, BD-disks AND Blu-Ray Player)
• Save the pictures as they are eg .jpg in a folder and on a DVD and play them via a PC/Mac and a SlideShow program as iPhoto, PowerPoint etc.
Good Luck !
Yours Bengt W

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