Poor quality video screen

Just bought the new Ipod with video. while attempting to clean the screen I somehow damaged the display by applying to much presure with my thumb. Returned to the store and after an hour wait, I was turned away. This device is too delicate for a hand held. Good luck with your piece of junk!

What the heck got on it you had to press so hard?? I cant believe some of the stuff I read here, guess Apple should have made them from kevlar and titanium!!

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Poor quality video when viewing on canvas - screens captured by Camtasia

I'm creating avi files of Excel screen shots and activities on a PC with Camtasia, moving them to FCP5, and converting them to QuickTime movies. I've tried lots of settings at both ends of the process. The clips look great if played on QT pl;ayer or other players and not bad when played in the FCP viewer. They lose a lot of resolution when I move them to the timeline, render them, and view on the canvas. Any idea what settings I should use to get these clips looking really good? Thanks very much.
Ernie Horan

They lose a lot of resolution...
they have to ...
iMovie is for video editing, delivery is in NTSC/PAL, so max. supported res is 720x480...
video means also: iMovie uses internally "dv" as videocodec (as on miniDV tapes...)… what codec is inside the .avi you're producing on your PC? .. as you probably know, avi (in the Apple world: mov) is just a container, some say "wrapper".. can contain many formats&codecs, which look good in playback, but lose quality when processed in iM.. as said: stay with dv...
if camtasia doesn't support dv, try a less compressing codec (mpeg4?)... try to come close to the video specs as possible...
last word about quality:
"video" means also, your Mac can only "emulate" the final pic quality, video has 30fps, is interlaced etc.... playout to tape/create dvd/use iM's live-playout feature to judge delivery quality....

Poor quality video and choppy

When I import into imovie with my Sony DCR TRV130 handy cam the quality is poor it is also choppy and speeds up at times. When i connect it directly to the television,it looks fine and the replay speed is fine.
New Imac 121 Gig free
Sony DCR TRV130 handy cam
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imovie 08
I am a novice to both the mac and imovie. i did watch the tutorials, so i am not completely clueless. this was one of the reasons to move from PC to mac.
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Make sure the QuickTime Player is set to high quality playback.
With the QuickTime Player running, select QuickTime Player>Preferences>General and make sure the 'Use high-quality video setting when available' box is checked.

Poor quality video after imovie imports it

I have reasonably good quality video (Video DivX 6.0, 640x480, 29.97 fps, Audio: uLaw 2:1, Mono, 8000 Hz) ) which when viewed on my imac in QT looks good. I then import into imovieHD and the quality reduces (lower res and flatter contrast).
The problem seems to be the conversion to DV because if I use toast to do this same conversion I get the same loss in quality (I needed to do this to get movieds into imovie08)
So my question is, given that imovie seems to only use DV (converting all other formats), how to I convert my videos to DV without quality loss (I have all the usual 10.5 software and also TOAST)
Hope somone can help, been banging my head against this for a while now.

At it's heart, iMovie is a DV editing application. When you look at the big picture there are two fundamental video files: those that are meant to be edited and those that are meant to be distributed (youtube, DVD etc). You have a "distributed" file that you wish to edit. This simply means there will always be obstacles and loss of quality. As example, a DV file = 13GB/hour. This is compressed for distribution (commonly using iDVD to create a DVD which only holds 4.3GB). The more compressed the file is, the more quality is going to suffer.
Your file is very compressed and I think you are barking up the wrong tree. What is it you want to do with your file inside of iMovie? I believe there are Divx editing applications out there that will perform simply cuts- but I think they are Windows only. I didn't see anything that would do more than simple cuts, probably because all the individual frame information is gone via compression (which is why iMovie wants an individual frame format).
I may have an MP3 a friend gives me of a orchestra performance. The original recording took place in a studio, mastered via a huge 48-track console. I may want to go back and extract just the trumpet- easy enough with the source material- but not something that can be realistically done with a very compressed MP3.
Mike

Poor quality video in interactive pdfs

I'm having problems embedding video content in a pdf whilst retaining its quality. I have a presentation document at A3 size in indesign, on which there is a video on the page at 400x224mm (or 1138x638px if I change the unit of measurement.
We have been getting frustrating results when using a .mov with h264 codec where frames are dropping and the quality is very poor compared to the original. We have tried plenty of iterations, sizing the video to the exact proportions of the box it is placed in, larger HD sizes, using f4v, and altering bit rates, but with similar results.
The odd thing is that when it plays in a floating window, the quality is much improved which suggests it is not the computer struggling, but something to do with acrobat's interpretation of the scaling.
A final complication is that we discovered that using a mpeg4 codec with a .mov seems to be much more successful, but one of our requirements is that it can be embedded both through indesign and directly into a pdf from acrobat, and acrobat tells me it is not a supported format.
It's been a really frustrating process and I'd really appreciate if anyone can suggest a supported file type that will give us the quality required.
Thanks in advance

Thanks for your swift response Dave, really appreciate the help.
We looked into using a floating window, but the documents are for sending out to clients without knowing what size of screen it will be viewed on. This meant that in certain circumstances the poster frame would sit larger on the page than the video itself, creating a bit of an odd composition.
The widget sounds very useful, although I'm hesitant as it would need to be rolled out across a large number of computers in our organisation. So I'm keen to explore any other alternatives (if there are any!) first.
You mentioned:
"The default video player widget embedded into PDFs by Acrobat and InDesign always scales the content proportionally to fit the Flash Player viewport, so if the video is smaller than the actual pixel dimensions of the viewport it will be enlarged.'
Since we tried creating the video at the exact dimensions of the media box do you know why it is still rescaling it? I've heard there's a bit of a discrepancy between indesign and acrobat with pixels vs vectors, but have never quite got my head round it.
Let me know if you can advise further,
Thanks

Poor quality full screen QT movie

I need to export a FCP movie to be played on a computer screen using Quicktime. I tried the H.264 settings. The movie looks great when played in Quicktime...until viewed in full screen. Then the quality of the image is poor. Are there any special settings that would allow a full screen QT movie to look good?

Look... not going to silly slap you, but you need to put your common sense cap on and think this one thru...
You shot a video... you edited it in what... 720x480 dv?
Do you know what those numbers mean? They're lines of pixel lines (kindof).
If your monitor was 720x480 they'd look great... try it on a TV that tv is 720x480.
Your computer monitor is NOT 720x480... in fact, mine is 19xx by 12xx or some such numbers.
Your video pixels will now be THREE times bigger!! EACH ONE!!! Now do you see why it looks jagged? You are seeing the individual pixels. h.264 is even worse.
OK...
Tell us again what you THINK you want to do, and what format the original video is in.
Ok?
CaptM

Poor quality video when burning a DVD

Hi All,
I have recently purchased & installed Premiere Elements 11 on my Windows 7 64bit Dell laptop. I found the tutorials very helpful and was able to successfully create my first project - importing a 46 minute AVCHD file4GB m2.ts shot on my Panasonic HC-V100 in Record Mode HG1920: 1920x1080 25f/s Audio 48kHz. When creating the project I selected: New Project>Change Settings>PAL>AVCHD>Full HD 1080i 25 andTicked ‘Force Selected Project Setting on this Project’ (I'm in the UK hence selecting PAL)
I added titles then created a menu and scenes using a still photo 2mb jpg 3456x2304 300dpi for the menu background. So far so good - really pleased with the results on screen. Next I selected Publish>Disc > selected AVCHD Add Name>Choose 1920x1080i>Burn to Folder. I then burned the BDMV Folder to DVD using the inbuilt DVD burner in my laptop.
This successfully produced a DVD with menus and titles which will play on my Blu-ray player. The quality of the video is excellent and I am delighted with the result however here is the first of the problems I'm hoping someone can help with: The background image on the menu is slightly blurred as are the menu/scene titles.
Next I wanted to produce a DVD for people who don't have a Blu-ray player & therefore need to play it on a normal DVD player. This is the second problem (and one I have seen mentioned elsewhere on the community). I published the project in a similar manner to the one above but with the following differences:
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(BTW, prior to purchasing Premiere Elements 11 I had been playing the video from my camera into a Sony RDR-HXD910 hard disc recorder then burning DVDs from that device using SP mode. This produced DVDs with perfectly acceptable quality so I must admit that I was hoping for similar results from Premiere Elements.)
I have read on the community that DVDStyler is a preferred method of burning DVDs however afer downloading it I failed to find a way of using it for simply burning my existing VIDEO_TS folder.
This is as far as I have got and now would really appreciate some help to point me in the right direction to be able to burn my project onto ordinary DVDs. I have tried to put as much information on the post as possible but I am new to video editing so have probably missed or not described something!
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Simon

ATR,
Thank you for helping me out.
To answer your questions:
--Do you really need NTSC DVD-VIDEO standard 4:3 on DVD disc or is NTSC DVD-VIDEO widescreen 16:9 on DVD acceptable?
I was told that product specs require 4:3 aspect ratio for DVD. (Unfortunately footage was all shot in 16:9 before I found out about the 4:3 finished requirement.) I want to generate the highest IQ possible in this format.
--Is your 1920 x 1080p 30 or 25 or something else?
All video was shot at 1920 x 1080p 60fps. AVCHD.
Video Source Properties as obtained from the Timeline:
Type: MPEG Movie
Image Size: 1920x1080
Frame Rate: 59.94
Source Audio Format: 48000Hz – compressed - Stero
Project Audio Format: 48000Hz – 32 bit floating point - Stereo
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.0
--What exactly is set as the Premiere Elements project preset for the project that has this 1920 x 1080p footage on its Timeline?
PROJECT SETTINGS
Editing Mode: AVCHD 1080p square pixel
Timebase: 59.94 fps
Frame Size: 1920x1080
Pixel Aspec Ratio: Square (1.0)
Fields: None (progressive scan)
Display Fomat: 60fps Drop-Frame Timecode
Title Safe Area: 20% horizontal, 20% vertical
Action Safe Area: 10% horizontal, 10% vertical
Audio Sample Rate: 48000Hz
Display Format: Audio Sample
--When the project preset was set, did you use NTSC or PAL section in the new project dialog?
I didn't make any choices. I didn't use the new project dialog. I imported media and started working. When I saved, I made no choices. Since I'm in the US and bought this from Amazon, I assumed it was NTSC, and that appears to be the case.
--Is your program version 12?
Yes.
Motivated by a different thread regarding titles and 4:3, I did create a test "movie" (not DVD) at 4:3 and all the titles fit within the image area. (I even made a point of inserting a couple of titles that ran outside the "safe" area in the PRE Titler; these also all fit on the image although they came closer to the edge. Not crowded, but perhaps not as aesthetically pleasing as those that were created within the limits.

SX40 poor quality videos

My SX40 has never given very good videos, at any resolution. I figured it was just the nature of the beast, but I have seen some demos recently on YouTube of videos from SX40 that are phenomenal. It is 2 years old and never did work like I expected it to.
Is it possible I am doing something wrong? I tried every possible setting I can think of. Problems:
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olowkow,
My experience with video is pretty limited, but I have found that I really need to use a tripod with a very smooth operating head to help eliminate the shimmy/waving effect that you are seeing. Not sure from your description if you are using one or not. As far as the graininess, that sounds like the ISO might be too high or that there isn't enough light available to assist with the camera focusing.
I hope some other members can shed some better insight for you on this.
Steve M.

Poor Quality Videos in RH10

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When I launch these video files in other software, they're fine. Resolution is great. As soon as I insert them into Robohelp using the Insert>Multimedia/Demo option, the screen resolution is awful. Preview mode is bad, so whatever happens, happens immediately. Generating doesn't fix anything either.
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We found the fix. A programmer and I messed around with this for a couple of hours, and hit on the size of the video. When I converted the file to FLV, the setting in Media Encoder was 1280X720. When I insert the file into Robohelp, the video is much smaller, so I grabbed the corner and sized it to about 920X700 or so. Don't do that!!
When I double-clicked the video and displayed the Multimedia dialog, there's a Size button. I clicked it and entered the exact size of the converted video, 1280X720 - and it looks great!

Poor quality video output

Hello to all as this my first post, I'm kinda hoping I can call upon the wealth of experience here to help sort out my issue as I really need your help.
Ok, here goes...
I produce architectural animations in 3dsmax, each frame is rendered out to targa & jpeg format as high quality stills @ 1280 x 720 resolution. For the simple stuff I have two passes, beauty and AO which are composited in Autodesk Toxic before being passed onto premiere CS4.
Now when I import the still sequences into premiere and add the titles and effects all looks well in the rendered preview, when I export to media encoder the video looks just awful with banding, fuzziness and artifacts a plenty.
I am not an experienced user, I've been stuck in at the deep end and i'm sinking fast. I've tried pretty much all out the format presets with limited success but have been totally unable to the the final output any where near the still quailty. I'd like a high quailty output matching the still resoultion which can be burned onto DVD and played on computer and through a DVD player.
Can anyone point me in the right direction or tell where I'm going wrong as I'm tearing my hair out with frustration and I'm already two days late on this.
Yours hopefully in anticipation of some helpful advice
Roy

Ok, having checked, the DVD requirement has been dropped which helps me a little, now the only requirement is to play on a pc connected to a large screen tv via HDMI.
So far, with the help from this forum, I've managed to export the sequence, in 1280 x 720p @ 24FPS to a bluray format which has an M4P extension. Despite installing the required codecs I can't play the file on the PC. Does this need further conversion? If so would this need to be done in Encore or another porgram?
Again, apologies for the endless questions but I really am up against my deadline here so any help & advice is very welcome.

Poor Quality Video upon Burning. Please--desperate for answers

Hello. I am trying to put my thesis on a DVD...it is 29 minutes long and the export out of final cut is 11.9 GB using the compression DVCPRO 720p60...which is what we shot at.
I tried putting it into DVD studio pro and it looked fine in the simulator, 16:9 letterboxed. But upon burning it the image is BOXY and PIXELATED. Like an atari video game, even on the still image (not aliasing).
So I brought it into compressor with the setting 90 minutes bes quality dvd to see in the preview the same boxy image.
What do I do???
my bit rates are at 7.5 average and 8.9 highest. Please, I have an interview with production companies in 2 days and need to put this on a dvd....

Are you viewing it on a SD TV, HDTV, a computer monitor set to actual size, or a computer monitor set to fill the screen?
All DVDs are standard definition. So all your HD footage is being scaled down to SD resolution, which on a HDTV or a computer monitor set to fill the screen, looks soft and pixelated.
That being said, Compressor does not do a great job of turning HD footage directly into SD MPEG-2 video. Either first convert your HD video to a SD video, and then compress it to a MPEG-2. Or using the same settings in Compressor, this time turn on Frame Controls (which dramatically increases render times.)
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Poor quality video after rendering

Hello everyone,
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Okay, here goes the entire story. We use a program called Office FX made by a company called Instant Effects to add motion video to our power point presentation. Now the other day a client that we're about to do a show for requested a looping logo for some side screens. We had created this effect in Office FX and now had to find a way to place it on a Blu-ray disc. You can "publish" a file from Office FX, but the only choices are 1)Uncompressed, but with a 2GB limit, 2) DivX, which can't be read by either AE or Premiere, 3) Lagarith, which is a LOSSLESS codec. Since the clip is 30 seconds in length the uncopressed option is out. The Lagarith clip (which is about 200 MB in size) actually looks pretty good, through you can see the start of some the problems I'm having ( I failed to mentioned the banding issues which seems inherent in Mpeg2). So to recap. 1) I can only use Lagarith, 2) It is Lossless and pretty good, 3) The avi is 30 seconds in length and 200 MB in size. The resulting Mpeg2 and H.264 files are 1:30 in length (I tripled them on the timeline) and around 400 MB in size. I have tried 1080i at 29.97, and 1080p at 24. The best result I've had in removing the jagged edges is with H.264 but the downside has been codec artifacts (square boxes showing up in the image). Also, please note I did a custom timeline with 1920 X 1080 (1.0 pixels) and laragith as my render

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Imovie to Quicktime to FLV = poor quality video...how to improve

I finally have a system down for getting video footage from Imovie onto my site:
1.From Imovie Export using Quick time.
2.W/ FLV crunch converter software Convert file into FLV.
3.Insert FLV onto page and upload.
The good news is this works, the bad news is the quality of video is very poor. Any ideas on how I could improve the video quality?

When you are talking "Quality" you are basically talking about the amount of incoming data required for one set display size... that's the video bitrate (the minimum amount of data flowing into the video player to continue the display uninterupted).
If you are using the same bitrate as shown in your first image, "256kbps" and a display of "352 x 288 px", you are on the very low end of producing high quality... that bitrate at that size is more like medium quality. And then if the actual display size is increased on the web page at all, the quality will only degrade further. and you will never improve the quality with successive "converting" you'll only degrade it.
If you do have to "convert" to a different file format, be sure to render the starting file at no less than double the bitrate that you want to finish with. So for example, if you must "convert" a file and you plan to use a 750kbps final video bitrate, you must start with at least a 1500kbps video, (even 5 or 6 times that is better) so that you have a plenty of extra data, which will get destroyed during the "convertion" process.
Here is a little background info on bitrate as it relates to display size:
Video bit rate
One of the principle of goal setting is to "Begin with the end in mind". In this case it'll be very hard to give good recommendations because the end is not defined. So I'll just make a few assumptions and you can correct me as needed.
First, I'll assume that since you are converting to Flash, you want to deliver this video over the Internet. If that's true, then we'll have to make some assumptions on the Internet connection download speeds of your potential viewers. Let's just say that most have at least a 1.5Mb connection or faster.
OK, that would mean that a video bitrate of half that should usually provide a video download that is not interupped by buffering (most of the time anyway). So assuming a video bitrate of 750kbps, what would the optimum display dimensions be?
Before we decide, here's a little info about bitrate. For highest quality playback, the video bitrate is tied directly to the display dimensions. That is, the larger the display, the more incoming data is required to properly display the video. Think of bitrate in terms of a can of paint. If you have 1 quart of paint, you might be able to do a very nice job on a 32 X 24 foot area. But if you try to stretch that same amount of paint out over a 64 X 48 foot area, the coverage will not be nearly as good and you get poor results.
In the same way, a video displayed at 640 X 480 pixels will require 4 times the bitrate as a video displayed at 320 X 240 pixels to produce the same quality. So for example a video with a bitrate of 100kbps, displayed at 160 X 120 will produce the same quality results as a video with a bitrate of 1600kbps if displayed at 640 X 480.
So to boil it all down, video bitrates of 750kbps, even up to 1000kbps can usually get delivered of the Internet on most high speed connections. Higher bit rates may work for really fast connections but will cause problems for viewers with slower connections. Video display size has a direct bearing on the final quality. In the 750 to 1000kbps range, display size should be kept around 450 or 500 width max (and whatever height the aspect ratio calls for). Yes it can be displayed larger, but the quality will suffer.
Sound like your audio settings are fine, especially for Internet delivery.
As for framerate, maintain the original raw video framerate for best results. So if the video was shot at 24fps, leave it.
As for video converters, do you have the Flash 8 Video Converter? It works just fine for video to be delivered over the Internet. Remember, you are taking a Cadillac version of video (h.264 HD) and stuffing it into a Chevy body to get it to work over the Internet.
Best wishes,
Adninjastrator

Output 16:9 QT to iDVD w/ chap mkrs-poor quality video-WHY?

I imported ftg rom Sony HDV (shot as HD 1080i) as DV NTSC anamorphic. edited the project. then added chap. mkrs. now I want to export this as 16:9 into iDVD. I have heard all the problems associated with doing this. I am very confused as to how to complete this project. When I increase the quality of the export through qt conversion I seem to loose the chap mkrs. so I guess I will export as standard qt movie w/ chap mkrs. then I will put this thru the "anamorphisizer". then import this new file into iDVD. Is there a better way to do this to improve the picture quality?

Are you looking at the output on a video monitor? Are
you talking about after the DVD has been burned, or
the QI player of the exported file? Is the QT player
set to high quality? exporting to QT Conversion will
not not improve the image, even if you use a lossless
codec. Don't be confused by what you see on the
computer screen. Different codecs will display
different and behave differently. Unfortunately
you're still ending up crushing it to MPEG-2 onto a
DVD designed for display on a television set.
I am looking at the DVD after it was burned. It seems to have lost a lot of quality from the way it lookked in FCP. I guess that is just because of the compression in iDVD?

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