Cannot Export High-Quality Video from Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 - General

I'm putting together a video I made in Source Filmmaker just for fun, since I'm learning to use it. It was a pain in the ass, but I got all the necessary takes and scenes for it. It was all recorded and exported at 1280 x 720 pixels, so I figured I'd be able to edit and export it at at least 720p when I was done. Then I put it together in [b]Adobe Premiere Pro CS4[/b]. For some reason, though, when I try to export the video, something screws up and I end up with a shit-quality video that would make old-time YouTube look shameful. (In other words, bad). I've used several different formats, including MPEG 2 and 4, AVI, and QuickTime to no avail.Please, if anyone here knows anything about exporting with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 or Adobe Media Encoder, throw me a bone. Even though my family and I have come to the conclusion that Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 is a load of crap, it's all I got for editing at the moment.

[QUOTE=Markntosh;22206216]Even though my family and I have come to the conclusion that Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 is a load of crap, it's all I got for editing at the moment.[/QUOTE] :raise: Are you sure your project has the proper settings? Try exporting as wmv too.

I use Adobe CS4 Premiere Pro and it's badass. It's in no way a load of crap just because you.....and your family(???) don't know how to use it. Plus, it depends how you exported it in Source Filmmaker.

[QUOTE=Funnycat;22206371]:raise: Are you sure your project has the proper settings? Try exporting as wmv too.[/QUOTE] I did that first. Same issue. [editline]10:27PM[/editline] [QUOTE=MiKeV;22206474]I use Adobe CS4 Premiere Pro and it's badass. It's in no way a load of crap just because you.....and your family(???) don't know how to use it. Plus, it depends how you exported it in Source Filmmaker.[/QUOTE] Constant crashes and slow rendering (on a quad-core machine, no less) does not classify as "not know how to use it."

Make a new project, get anything there, try exporting.

[QUOTE=Funnycat;22206572]Make a new project, get anything there, try exporting.[/QUOTE] By "Get anything there," do you mean something like copy+paste the entire thing into a new project?

No I mean any footage.

[QUOTE=Markntosh;22206514] Constant crashes and slow rendering[/QUOTE] Sorry your PC is failing with it. And like I said, it depends on how you exported it Source Filmmaker, if you choose retarded export settings in SF, sometimes the way you export it again in another program won't be able to make it look better. A little more info than "something screws up" would help.

[QUOTE=Funnycat;22206886]No I mean any footage.[/QUOTE] So, I have to re-edit the whole thing? [img]http://www.epiclol.com/4chan/image/595/FUUUU.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=Markntosh;22207199]So, I have to re-edit the whole thing? [IMG]http://www.epiclol.com/4chan/image/595/FUUUU.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] NO, I want you to make a new project from scratch, doesn't matter what the content would be, and export it.

[QUOTE=MiKeV;22206962]Sorry your PC is failing with it.[/quote] Oh yah, that's a lot of help and defends your argument well. [quote]And like I said, it depends on how you exported it Source Filmmaker, if you choose retarded export settings in SF, sometimes the way you export it again in another program won't be able to make it look better.[/quote] And what exactly is "retarded" export settings? Specifically, I used .avi & .wav at 1280 x 720* with 32 bit DoF and 64 bit Motion Blur. *I admit I said I used a higher resolution than I actually did in the OP. Fixed as of now. The codec was one I found on the source filmmaker wiki that was suggested since it supports multiple cores and did a better job of compression with less quality loss. It could be the issue, however I didn't trust the uncompressed format because it the video would sometimes freeze up during exporting and ruin the whole damn thing. This one worked fine and looked fine up until I opened it in Premiere.

[QUOTE=PelPix123;22207204]I have never had a single problem with Premiere. It's goddamn perfect. GPU accelerated preview and rendering, amazing RAM budgeting, an incredible sound mixer. [u]Then again, I use CS5.[/u][/quote] Sonuvabitch! I wish I had CS5 already. [quote]The truth is that I believe you encoded the filmmaker video wrong. Almost all the codecs on a standard windows installation are ass. If you chose [I]anything[/I] but "uncompressed AVI," it's going to look like that when it comes out of filmmaker, regardless of the premiere encode quality.[/quote] As I said, there are issues with uncompressed as well, most notably freezing and lag. [quote]You better have saved the dem. If you didn't, you're[I] fucked.[/I][/QUOTE] Unfortunately not. I heard there are major issues with Filmmaker save files anyway, one guy I talked to said he did all his work with the program and file open 24/7 because of save file bugs. [editline]11:20PM[/editline] [QUOTE=PelPix123;22207322]Your PC isn't even good enough to handle uncompressed video? Specs, please.[/QUOTE] I spent good money on this rig, it oughtta be able to handle a simple video. AMD Phenom II X4 955 3.2 GHz processor (Quad-core) Nvidia 9800 GT video card 4GB of DDR3 RAM 64-bit Windows 7 Built it myself when it was just shit in a case, then upgraded it as I went.

[QUOTE=PelPix123;22207424]Should be good enough. How big's the avi? If you don't have a problem. I've worked in video for a good 6 years now. I could encode the video for you. But you said it needs to be edited, and I don't know where you want it edited, so that wouldn't work either.[/QUOTE] Just under 4,000,000 KB. I'll admit to being a lazy bastard and never getting around to learning the difference between kilos and megas, all I know is that gigabytes are big, so I'm not quite sure how big 4,000,000 KB is supposed to be.

[QUOTE=PelPix123;22207483]About the size of Half-Life 2 in its entirety.[/QUOTE] Holy shit. Hmm. I wonder what the issue is, then. Quite possibly the codec as I said earlier.

I've had this problem on CS4 myself. The exported footage looks completely aliased and jagged, but the export settings are exactly the same as the settings on Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0. I've tried multiple formats, too. It's pretty much what made me revert back to using 2.0.

[QUOTE=Funnycat;22206572]Make a new project, get anything there, try exporting.[/QUOTE] Just tried this with both a clip from Filmmaker and a sample video provided with Windows 7. Both came out lookin' like crap. I believe that proves the issue lies within Premiere, somewhere. Now we just gotta find out why it's doing thins and how to fix it.

[QUOTE=PelPix123;22207710]Did you choose 720P when you FIRST created the project all the way in the beginning?[/QUOTE] Probably not. I chose whatever it defaults you to, which from what I'm guessing is 720 x 480. That would explain a lot. [editline]12:06AM[/editline] [QUOTE=PelPix123;22207710]Did you choose 720P when you FIRST created the project all the way in the beginning?[/QUOTE] Just did another test render using a filmmaker clip and a Windows 7 Sample clip. Both of them came out looking fantastic when I selected the HD option on startup. Well, there's the issue. Can I change the DV optino to HDV within the file or will I need to start over for that?

[QUOTE=PelPix123;22210023]I'm not sure. I've never made the mistake before. I think that the project is sort of like a master. You might be able to import all the subfiles into a new project[/QUOTE] Alright, well thanks for all the help. I believe we can call this thread closed.