Rendered output from PremierePro CS4 (via Media encoder) is pixelated and posterized

Using Premier Pro -- Recently upgraded to CS4. When exporting sequence to a quicktime movie using the Adobe Media Encoder - all settings are same as (equivalent to) what I used to do in CS3, but the result is pixelated, or posterized. See samples of what I am getting, over here: http://www.tamotion.com/sample/Picture11.png and http://www.tamotion.com/sample/Picture12.png
I am getting the same result on 3 different intel iMacs, all running Leopard 10.5.5, 4GIG RAM (in one case, 3GIG), so the problem is not specific to any one machine. I assume there is a basic setting I may have overlooked.
Anyone have an idea what the problem is?
Thanks
Tam

You need to set Bitrate in AME (it's turned off in default, don't know why it's off).
I had this problem too, but with switching on Bitrate and set the correct number - this correct problem with low quality mov's for me.

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binaryDataSize
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Provider
[ Name]
Microsoft-Windows-LoadPerf
[ Guid]
{122EE297-BB47-41AE-B265-1CA8D1886D40}
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1000
Version
0
Level
4
Task
0
Opcode
0
Keywords
0x8000000000000000
TimeCreated
[ SystemTime]
2014-04-16T08:25:51.922502600Z
EventRecordID
3402
Correlation
Execution
[ ProcessID]
19984
[ ThreadID]
24964
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Application
Computer
Schnittplatz
Security
[ UserID]
S-1-5-18
UserData
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Microsoft-Windows-LoadPerf
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2014-04-16T08:25:51.922502600Z
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3402
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Execution
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19984
[ ThreadID]
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UserData
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binaryDataSize
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The Error is back!!!
Yesterday it worked today it crashes when I export from premiere via media encoder. I tried it with all the things you told me:
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Ereignis-ID 1000
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System
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