Grainy photos

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After converting my RAW photos in Lightroom I then edit them in Photoshop but they have started to appear very grainy. Can't understand why.

Hi
Exporting them from Lightroom to Photoshop and they appear grainy. Has been like this for about a week. Also when I am stitching a few photos to make a panorama would normally take a couple of minutes but lately this has been taking anywhere from 15 to 20 minutes.

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2) Why do I lose horizontal pixels (as can be seen in the bottom picture)
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Dear ATR,
I apologize for my late response. I was on holiday
A.T. Romano schreef:
Question...Your camera is a miniDV camcorder....what did you capture from it and into what....
Did you do a DV data capture firewire into Premiere Elements Capture Window to get DV.avi Widescreen (any mention of Type 1 or Type 2)
or
Did you do HDV data capture firewire into Premiere Elements Capture Window to get HDV (MPEG2.mpg)
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Concerning the 3 screenshots.
The first is the same as before: a rescaled image using MS Paint. Scaled from original 3264 x 1836 to 1024 x 576
The second is a capture from the DVD file (which was burned to a folder)
The third is a capture from a created MP4 video file
Clearly photo 1 is the best. Photo 3 is still acceptable to me, but photo 2 (DVD) is unacceptable if you ask me.
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