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Participant
January 24, 2021
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How To Bring Picture Into Perfect Focus in Premiere Elements 2021

  • January 24, 2021
  • 2 replies
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Hi everyone,

 

I was hoping you may be able to help.  I am a new to video editing so hopefully there is a really simple solution.

 

When my video is shown on the preview screen parts of it are a little blurry (in particular the background words on a book I have filmed).  However, when I manually move the Playhead the software automatically brings the whole picture (and words) into perfect focus.  When I stop manually moving the playhead parts of the video goes a little blurry again. 

 

I want to keep the perfect focus.  Can anyone help with this?

 

Many thanks in advance.

 

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Community Expert
January 24, 2021

You probably know this, but what you see during editing is a "rendered" real time preview.   It may be reduced in visual quality to improve the "smoothness" of editing.   At output, the final video quality is determined by the settings and choices made there.   It will be "rendered" again from the original source footage.  

Participant
January 25, 2021

Thank you, this is helpful.

Inspiring
January 24, 2021

Change the preview quality to high

Participant
January 24, 2021

Thank you.  Much appreciated!