I'm making a DVD from someone else's consumer-grade 1080p footage of a school choir concert. Due to poor camera work, there are a few places where I'm zooming in using automation of the "scale" effect, figuring that since I'm only exporting to DVD, the loss of sharpness won't be apparent. All's going well and initial export tests are fine. That's in PPro 11.0.2. Then the new 11.1 becomes available in the CC App, and I stupidly upgrade. RULE #2: DO NOT ALLOW ADOBE CC TO UPDATE AN APP WHILE USING IT IN THE MIDDLE OF A MAJOR PROJECT. I mean, c'mon, be sensible! (By the way, rule #1 is to always, always, always keep multiple copies of critical files, hopefully in multiple locations. But I digress.) Anyway, so I let it update Premiere Pro from 11.0.2 to 11.1 the other day. Should've taken a clue when opening my project when I got prompted to save as a new file: This Is A Point Of No Return. So I finish the project. Export to DVD. Result? Fail - wonky blurry scenes result. No, there were no blurry scenes on the early unfinished exports. So I roll back Premiere from 11.1 to 11.0.2 and I can't open the finished project file because... yep, it's from a newer version, can't be done. Why oh why oh why is the project format non-backwards-compatible in a small dot release? Must be because of breaking the titling tool... So, some images for evidence. The source footage is not great, as someone else shot a concert with consumer gear, and if you know what you're doing you can see all the problems with that. Still... Here is an affected scene as seen in Premiere 11.1's preview window, downsized to DVD resolution: Here's what the same scene looks like from MPEG2-DVD export from either PPro 11.1 or its Media Encoder (identical result). You can see pixel columns in the lapel of the 2nd guy from the right, and when the guys move, those column edges look really, really bad like it was shot on a flip phone: Even a 720P export (also from 11.1's Media Encoder) suffers a little, just not as much, making me think this is a 16x16 pixel rendering bug, or something like that: Finally, here's what a previous preview DVD looked like, which is just fine as it should be (other than lacking some color correction), exported from Premiere 11.0.2: So I'd like to suggest this is a nasty but subtle bug, but wouldn't begin to presume to know why this is happening. This is charity work, on a tightening deadline, so it looks like not only can I not export a usable MPEG file, but it's taking all my time AND I'll be missing the looming due date. I'm now attempting a 1080 export, and if it crashes again like it did last night, I'm pretty much screwed with getting this project done.
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