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I have down converted my videos, and also recorder samples at a lower rate but the video quality is ****, completely unacceptable even by cell phone video standards.
Here is a GSpot screen of one of my lower def videos that still plays choppy in PE. Can someone clue me in to exactly what preset I should be starting with? It is not clear to me from this compared to the preset settings the best match. Also, there are several lower quality video settings on the camera, but I don't seem to be able to find what the exact spec's are.
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Can someone clue me in to exactly what preset I should be starting with?
I suggest that we not loose sight of this question in the original post.
I am using Sony's software, PMB, that came with the camera to convert
to SD MPEG2. I have also catured some video in this format without
converting it down.
If this video was recorded in Widescreen (probably yes) and the ouput of Sony program conversion process is a .mpg (mpeg-2) file, then
, I think the Premiere Elements project preset would be the Widescreen choice under the Hard Disk, Flash Drive Camcorder.
And I would give that preset a try. Also if you have any red lines above areas of clips on your timeline, you should render those before doing any playback within Prem Elem in order to have smoother playback.
FYI - However, even then you should not judge the quality by playback within Premiere Elements - especially on your constrained for video editing PC configuation. Instead your final output format should be used for judging the quality.
Steve and Bill,
do you agree ?
Hydroshock,
Hi again. I do come here periodically as well as the Photoshop Elements forum. I'm still not sure - which version of Premiere Elements are you running and which version of Windows ?

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