REALLY bad quality!!!

I have a Canon ZR 850, imac with imovie HD5.0 and also a macbook with imovie 6.0.4 and also 7.0.1. No matter what machine I use or what version of imovie I use the quality of the imported video isn't close to what shows it recorded in the camera. I import via firewire. I understand the camera I use isn't a high quality unit but after comparing notes with people, they're telling me something is wrong for sure and that I should be importing pretty much how the cam recorded. I've searched the boards and haven't found a good solid answer to this issue. Can someone please help me!?? LOL

I'm actually exporting to .mov files
That explains everything. - '.mov' is a compressed format. The tag should be '.dv' (digital video). Try changing the export quality to 'full quality' and then you will have...... ummm........ full quality digital video.

Similar Messages

When I burn a dvd, it's really bad quality in black & white

When I burn a dvd, it's really bad quality in black & white.

What program are you using to burn the DVD? What is the original DVD content (another DVD disk or movie files -- what's their format?)?

Ever since I downloaded iOS 7 my music and video sound has been really bad quality what should i do

Ever since I downloaded iOS 7 my music and video sound has been really bad quality what should i do??

I had the same problem on my iPad v2 IOS 7. But it sorted itself after a hard reset (power and home button) followed by a soft rest ( just power) . I lost all sound at this point. Then restarted again with a hard reset.
Hope that fixes your iPad v2
Mo

Why does it look really bad quality when i plug my 13in macbook pro to my 42in samsung tv?

i bought this rocketfish hdmi cable to plug my 13in mac pro to my samsung plasma tv so i can watch netflix and youtube..and for some reason the picture quality is really bad. everyone says it looks great in theirs but why not mine? i put it at the highest resolution which is 1080i. Can i get any help??

it should be 1080p unless your's is only i
netflix and youtube need to have the best picture turned on for it to look good. Some are in 1080p but other only max out at 240p.
if you are in mirror mode, you are unable to change the screen size to the tv independently of the mbp.
What you should try to do is see if you have mirror mode turned on in system preferences> display>arrangement.

Webcam, really bad quality.

I bought a brand new Qosmio x305 a few months ago from Fry's. It is awesome for gaming and all. But, when I went to go to use the webcam recently to talk to a friend the quality is really horrible. It is all fuzzy, gray and keeps blacking out. =/.

the webcam ... quality is really horrible.
Some folks don't know about the protective film covering it. That needs to be removed.
Webcam image is dark, blurred, or out-of-focus
You can also tune things up.
Webcam image is very dark or black - troubleshooting suggestions
-Jerry

Image quality really bad on exporting

after creatingt the webpage i export the file into HTML and images. But what i see is that the images are of really bad quality. How can i rectify this problem. Any help is much appreciated.
thanks in advance.

Before exporting, click on the preview button at the top of the document window, and then open the optimize panel. With the Optimize panel open, click on the slices over each of the images to try out the different image formats and compression settings. When you are satisfied with the way they will look when exported, choose File > Export.

Bad quality DVDs

I'm getting really bad quality DVDs, especially the menus. I created the menus in Motion and used them as menus in DVDSP 4. I build the DVD in DVDSP and everything looks OK, even when I play it using DVD Player, but when I burn it and play the disc with Player it looks dreadful, like bad encoding. I'm encoding with VBR at a bit rate of 5 with a max of 6.5. Any ideas? Thanks.
Chuck

Hi CHuck,
i've never used Motion, but i can't help you there except to say double check that you are using the full quality settings.
Did you use 1 pass or 2 pass VBR? Your bitrate seems fine. What was the source (Vhs; camcorder; stills?) Try the DVD on another player. Some of mine look different on my samsung player than on my Sony, with the latter looking much better.
Are you using a brand name type of DVD media? That could be a problem if not. Are you burning at 1xDVD speed (only available through Toast). Maybe the burn speed is too high?
Cheers,
keebler

I just bought a bad quality album can it b refun? Zzz

It really bad quality u can go try hear it! Pls search for juris - now playing. Anything I setting wrong? I still got buy other song all ok except this album! At 1st I tot is the demo bad quality only!

You should contact Apple support:
https://getsupport.apple.com/LocaleChange.action

Video quality in scope is really bad and dark

When I send my sequence from Final Cut Pro to Color, why does the video in the scope area come out so bad where I can barely see anything? Basically the video is nothing like the quality in final cut pro and the picture is very very dark.
When I see the tutorials online of the videos being sent to color from final cut, the quality is exactly the same and they don't do any adjustment.
Can someone please help me fix this? I work with AVCHD. Thanks!

Thanks George.
Now the quality is not "really" bad anymore, it is bad. ;-)
The quality got better, but still there is a difference between drawing shapes and cell borders. And the difference is causing problems with customers, who are demanding professional quality.
Here is a .jpg of the original Excel table. The drawing shape is the outer one, the cell borders are the lines beneath the data. Both line types are very delicat. This is how it should be.
And this is how it looks after a pdf-print with setting "high quality print" (2400 dpi).
The outer drawing shape is ok. The thin horizontal lines are twice as thick than before.
I know, it is about details. But those details make the difference between a professional and an amateur performance.
Do you have another idea, how to improve the pdf quality?
Thanks for your help so far, I appreciate it.
Roman

Quality of printout is really bad

Hi Experts,
I use the system command "print screen", to print my visual composer cockpit (only tables and forms, no charts).
Unfortunately, the quality of some printout is really really bad. It seems that VC does some scaling, in order to fit the form to the paper size. But then, the texts are distorted and hardly decipherable.
As I use BAPIs and special form layouts, I cannot use the printing capabilites of reports, as described in the famous "How To... Export Data from Visual Composer".
When I use the flash print function (right click, print...) or the browser print function (menu: file, print...) my VC application is not scaled at all and only the top left corner of my cockpit fits on the paper. The rest is ommitted...Nothing helps, I'm frustrated!
Who can help me? Any Ideas on how to print a cockpit legibly?
Thank you very much in advance,
Benni
PS: Points will be awarded, of course!

Benni,
do you hv multiple iViews on a page or all the forms/tables etc are on the same iView? if you're using multiple iViews, you can enable print on each iView and get users to minimize the other iViews on the page that are not being printed, that way you might get a decent-sized iView. also try to hv the navigation panel in a collapsed state by default, so that there is sufficient space on screen.
in addition, try to scale your iViews during design time such that when deployed they fit within the screen so that users dont hv trouble scrolling/adjusting etc..i know printing is not something done easily with VC, but hope this helps..
prachi

5800 Really Bad build quality

Well I am now on my 3rd 5800 and they all seem to have really bad build quality. As others have mentioned there is a big gap along one side of the phone (top right hand side running down past the volume buttons) and in the dark light leaks out through the gap
Come on - how can anything like this be put out to the general public - this is a serious issue. If you can get one side of the phone to close properly then why didn't you get the other side to do the same?
As a product designer I know that during the design stage there are several prototypes made, parts checked etc - how could this be passed as ok?
I am seriously considering ditching the 5800 all together - for something that Nokia are classing as a premium model they really need to re-consider its quality.

This is really annoying me as well. This phone cost me a lot of money and it's the worst build quality/design I've ever seen.
People talk about dust getting in through the gap but what worries me is that it is much more likely to let in moisture! I've checked with Vodafone and moisture damage is NOT covered by their warranty. So unless Nokia admit that it's a manufacturing fault you'll have to pay for the repair youself.
Of course,
1) If their wasn't a gap down the side of the case water wouldn't get in so it wouldn't need repairing!
2) If the phone gets water damaged it's almost certainly going to be classified as "beyond economical repair"!
Come on Nokia, admit it's a manufacturing fault, recall all the phones and repair them free of charge.
Message Edited by colin5800 on 09-Mar-2009 05:50 PM

I RECENTLY BOUGHT SOME SONGS FROM ITUNES BUT THE SOUND QUALITY WAS REALLY BAD. I'M NOT SURE WHAT TO DO?

i bought some songs yesterday that i really liked but when i was listening the sound quality was really bad. it just ruined the song almost. i am not sure what to do about it.

You might try listening to the songs from other devices or systems to make sure it doesn't have to do with your computer specifically.
Also try to preview the songs from your computer and any other devices if possible to see if the preview sounds any different.
If you're still having issues you should contact iTunes support:
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/
Once you get there, choose Music Purchases from the list, then choose Music Purchases again, and it will let you Email them directly about the issue.
Give them the names of the songs you bought and as detailed a description of the audio issue as possible.

Premiere Pro CS6 and CC with bad quality and incorrect colors in output video

Hi everyone!
I'm frustrated with my results after exporting a video with Adobe Premiere Pro (both CS6 and CC).
The color of the video output is slightly different to the original file (i've checked if it was a problem with my video player, but no, i've tested the video with WMP and others with no success).
Also the video quality is a little bad compared to the original file (i even tried to use frame blending once).
Notice that i'm not using any effects or anything alike, and i'm a begginer in video editing.
These are the parameters from the original video (made by Media Info software):
Format
: MPEG-4
Format profile
: Base Media
Codec ID
: isom
File size
: 1.70 GiB
Duration
: 1h 35mn
Overall bit rate mode
: Variable
Overall bit rate
: 2 540 Kbps
Encoded date
: UTC 2012-12-06 21:47:27
Tagged date
: UTC 2012-12-06 21:47:27
Video
ID
: 1
Format
: AVC
Format/Info
: Advanced Video Codec
Format profile
: [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC
: Yes
Format settings, ReFrames
: 4 frames
Codec ID
: avc1
Codec ID/Info
: Advanced Video Coding
Duration
: 1h 35mn
Bit rate
: 2 246 Kbps
Maximum bit rate
: 33.7 Mbps
Width
: 1 920 pixels
Height
: 816 pixels
Display aspect ratio
: 2.35:1
Frame rate mode
: Constant
Frame rate
: 23.976 fps
Color space
: YUV
Chroma subsampling
: 4:2:0
Bit depth
: 8 bits
Scan type
: Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)
: 0.060
Stream size
: 1.50 GiB (88%)
Title
: Video
Writing library
: x264 core 128 r2216 198a7ea
Encoding settings
: cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:1:1 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / psy_rd=0.40:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=24 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / lookahead_threads=2 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=60 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=2246 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=25000 / vbv_bufsize=25000 / nal_hrd=none / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:0.60
Encoded date
: UTC 2012-12-06 21:47:27
Tagged date
: UTC 2012-12-06 21:48:02
I'm exporting the video using almost the same parameters from the original file.
Here's a screen shot of my settings in Premiere:
As you can see in the printscreen, the settings only differ from the original file parameters in the bit rate (which i raised a little),
the TV standard (which i have no ideia what it changes), the level of H.264 (which i raised from 4.0 to 4.1, 5.0 and 5.1), and the bit rate encoding (which i've tried using CBR, VBR 1, and VBR 2).
Just for my curiosity...why these numbers in orange are so extensive? I mean, the original video is only 01:35:30:06 in final output (which is correct).
Notice that i do not use key frame distance (as i don't know what it does).
If i'm doing something wrong, please tell me.

Well if i do that, the video will raise up GBs larger (and that is really bad).
Why is it really bad?
Its a fact of digital life. High datarate = quality.
example ...even the Youtube preset is in the 8mpbs area.
...and you are exporting 1 hr 35mins of media.

Bad quality preview via HDMI

Hello together!
After searching for days in the www and on this board I hope somebody here knows a solution for this problem:
Im looking for a quality solution to preview the program monitor as a full screen picture on my Panasonic HD-Ready TV. I got it running, but there is a really strange quality problem:
When I just use the TV as a second Windows display and I move the program monitor onto it (no full screen but at 100% display level) the preview looks nice but I can not see the complete picture, because 1280x720 plus the program monitor itself is too big for my screen When I change the display size of the program monitor to something lower than 100% the scaling looks very bad higher than 100% no problem with scaling.
So this is my problem:
When I switch it in the playback settings to playback on extern monitor to view it full screen there is a problem. Diagonal lines get a bad looking aliasing. My idea was that CS3 is scaling something (and this does the program not as good as I tried the preview with trailversions of Edius5 or Vegas8c). Just at 100% CS3 preview looks nice (the same when I just watch the program monitor on the Notebook display).
My Nvidia Card is set to HDMI 720p output. The TV says it is a 720p signal what is coming form my HDMI cable, and last but not least my footage is also filmed in 720p60 (Sony Ex1) and I used the 720p60 EX1 setting in CS3.
So again, when I just watch these clips for example with the Sony clip browser on my TV (also form this Notebook via the same HDMI output) the diagonal lines start not to flicker and are displayed very sharp. So it cant be the graphic card, the TV or the footage at my knowledge.
So why does CS3 scale there something in the full screen preview although from input to output everything is in 720p? Furthermore why is the scale in such a bad quality (Edius does this perfect so maybe I have just a wrong setting somewhere in my CS3 settings). Is CS3 not using the graphic card for scaling?
My system:
Asus V1S Notebook
NVidia GeForce 8600M GT 512MB
Duo T7500
2GB Ram
Windows Vista
Hope somebody here is able to find a solution for this problem, because I dont want to buy an extra video board (like Axio) for it.
Best wishes,
Swen

But often with these cards, you can not work in the CS3 normal nativ settings for Ex1 footage.
At my knowldge when I would like to open a project which with a Blackmagic Card for example and I like to finish the editing on an other computer without that card you'll have a problem (because BM or other cards allway use their own presett window-right?). So you lose a lot of flexibilty by using a card or a third party codec like this. So it's not so future proof as just to work with the NLE Software itself.
I see this now with my old Premiere 6.5 Projects. I used a Canopus Raptor RT2 for this with the Canopus codec. That worked very very well, but now I can't use this project anylonger on a new editing CS3 station, because it doens't support these Canopus transitions and codecs. Also the only Windows Notebook based output solution is the MotuV4 box... not a very cost effectiv solution for a preview.
So again. There must be a sloution to get the problem with the diagonal lines fixed. Why does CS3 scale the preview when 720p footage should be displayed over a 720p output onto a 720p Monitor? No need for scaling? Or am I wrong with this?

Screen is slightly blurry / has bad quality

I bought new Samsung 24" LCD monitor S24C300 and new video card Nvidia GT 630. Monitor is connected with DVI cable.
Problem is that when I'm using native resolution 1920 x 1080, the screen is really small and I have to use the DPI setting thing to make screen bigger, but, when I apply the DPI settings, some programs come annoying blurry.
At the resolution 1280 x 720 the screen is good size, but the text has slightly bad quality and is little blurry, so what to do?
I have adjusted the monitors sharpness settings and I also have ClearType on, but that doesn't help.
Could somebody help me with this issue? Thanks in advance!

Please first install the latest drivers for video and moniotr.
Some times a blurry screen can be caused by a poor cable, check with anothe if possible.
You can also try other port to test this issue, like HDMI.
I'd like to share the following articles with you as a convenience to yuo.
Getting the best display on your monitor
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows/getting-best-display-monitor#getting-best-display-monitor=windows-7
Ways to improve display quality
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows/improve-display-quality#1TC=windows-7
Regards
Yolanda
TechNet Community Support

REALLY bad quality!!!

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for