Why is Premiere Pro Exporting blurry?

Me a little here, a bastard. My short 33 second partial sequence of the timeline work playing great. That's when I export the problem occurs. I checked just as much as a human being, it takes, but no matter what I do, export comes out fuzzy. I've included a demo if anyone can help.

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Zach Hilton
Why is my Premiere Pro video blurry when I export?
Why does my video look blurry after export?
How do you fix the blurriness in Premiere Pro?
How do I export high quality Premiere Pro?

The settings I know are:

Premiere Pro CC2015

Windows 8

1280 x 720

29.97 en

Export:

MPEG4

Scale to fit (and fill up, as well)

NTSC

Level 3

Go to verified maximum depth

Maximum use invalidate verified quality

Thank you very much

Robert

Hello

Two questions. One, you have put your video export at a MUCH lower resolution (342 x 194) as your source (1280 x 720). In addition, MPEG 4 probably isn't the best format to choose in 2016. It gets a little confusing if you don't know much about codecs, but try by selecting the H.264 Format drop down. It gives you a video file that uses the H.264 codec super common inside of a MP4 container. It is one of the most common distribution methods on the Internet today. In most cases, you can leave the preset to "Match Source broadband." Hope that helps!

I filmed an event using a brand new Canon XL2. When I captured the footage into to Premier, I captured using an HD1080i setting to capture more pixels. But when I export to a Microsoft DV AVI or Quicktime, the quailty is blurry and pixelated. Have I done something wrong; do I need to change something? I’m kind of new at this and I could really use suggestions. Please help.

Thanks

Zach Hilton

January 30, 2008 at 5:31 am

You shot it on a Canon XL2? That is an SD camera and you edited your SD footage in an HD sequence. Thus, you are scaling up your footage. So the blurry/pixelated export is correct. It is doing exactly what you are telling it to. To get around this without having to re-edit, you’ll need to import your project into an SD project and remove any scaling that is going on. On export, things should look normal…SD, but normal. HD will only benefit you if a) you have shot in HD or b) you are doing motion graphics or any other resolution independent projects.

Problems with image softness are often caused by the compression that takes place after transcoding the images to our system. If you are using full resolution JPEGs or PNG images, the resolution may be too large and so some of the data is squished during compression. If the resolution of the video render on Animoto (1920x1080p, 1080x1080, and 1080x1920) has a smaller pixel ratio than the photos you've uploaded, the render system will process the image down to the size which may lead to squishing/blurring edges for images.

Numerous factors such as color levels, related camera settings, pixel file size of your image, and export settings can contribute to this problem. There isn't a way around that kind of compression and you may notice it more when using images with certain color levels.

We recommend downsizing your photo without reducing its quality before uploading. This can prevent our system from auto-compressing your images. Many of our customers have had success using a ~25% resolution reduction using bi-cubic mode in Photoshop.

Right click on one of your video files in the project panel and select 'new sequence from clip' this will make the sequence match your footage. Try exporting that and see if it is any better. If it's not better please post a screenshot of your new export settings.

Szalam • Community Expert , Dec 06, 2016 Dec 06, 2016

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Format: you want to set it to H.264 (right now, you have it set to QuickTime)

Then, in the preset section, pick YouTube 1080 preset (the YouTube presets are towards the bottom).

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Why is my Premiere Pro video blurry when I export?

You need to go into your sequence settings and increase that to 1920x1080. You'll need to resize the video to fit the new resolution. On export, the low res video will look the same but the text should be sharper. Otherwise, the export settings look fine for a 1920x1080 video.