Skip to main content
I
ipk
Participant
April 21, 2021
Question

Poor quality Tiffs in Adobe Premiere Elements 2020

  • April 21, 2021
  • 4 replies
  • 338 views

April 2021.  I prepare music videos for posting on YouTube.  They include jpeg photos of scenes and people and TIFFs of sheet music. The Tiffs are exported from Sibelius music notation software.  The quality of the Tiffs used to be very good but suddenly the quality of the TIFFs is very poor both on screen within Adobe and when exported to YouTube.  I have used the best quality Tiffs and tried converting them to Pngs and Jpegs; I also render the video before posting.  Nothing I do improves the quality.  I am on PC Windows 10 64 bit.  An example of good quality music pages Tiff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1z7xR0pgds&t=182s An example of poor quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb4o5EL3tMo
What is going wrong?  This just suddenly started happening, has there been an upgrade?  The virtual assistant is no help, it thinks I haven’t got a product registered but it is there in my account.  Someone please help/call me on [persona info deleted by mod].  My business is stalled until this is sorted.  Ian

This topic has been closed for replies.

4 replies

B
Community Expert
Bill SpragueCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 21, 2021

"editing mode HD 1080i"

 

That needs to be 1080p.  Still images need "progressive" video.     

 

There is not a direct way of changing project settings.  Steve came up with a workaround.  Basically, you select, copy and delete the entire time line.  Then drop in a "dummy" 1080p clip from somewhere.   Then, paste what you deleted after the 1080p clip.  Last, you delete the dummy clip.   

I
ipkAuthor
Participant
April 21, 2021

Thanks Bill I'll use the 1080p in future.

Since posting the original message I have used another Adobe premiere
elements 2020 file which works fine on YouTube as a template, removed the
assets for this video, added the assets for Valse Locrienne and it is fine
on YouTube. It doesn't answer the question of what was wrong with the
original VL file but at least I have a good quality video on YouTube now.

I couldn't send the Tifs, sorry

Thanks for your help

ipk
Ian Phillips-Kerr

B
Community Expert
Bill SpragueCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 21, 2021

Steve, is of course, right.  It always helps to get the pixels to match from the source, project and output.  My personal experience is that Premiere Element usually does a pretty good job of resizing if the image files are bigger than the project.   But, it is not always perfect. 

 

I played your videos and looked at the sheet music full screen with a 300% magnification.   I think one of the possibilties is that "Sibelius music notation software" may be creating different resolutions.   Can you share the actual TIFFs you are working with? Dropbox or similar?

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Ann BensCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 21, 2021

If no panning/zooming is performed images should be the same resolution as the project.

Rendering timeline before export is a waste of time. Rendering is just for preview.

I
ipkAuthor
Participant
April 21, 2021

Thanks Ann
There is no panning/zooming.

Since posting this I have used another Adobe premiere elements 2020 file
which works fine on YouTube as a template, removed the assets for this
video, added the assets for Valse Locrienne and it is fine on YouTube. It
doesn't answer the question of what was wrong with the original VL file but
at least I have a good quality video on YouTube now.

best ipk
Ian Phillips-Kerr
[personal info deleted by mod]

S
Steve Grisetti
Legend
April 21, 2021

If you go to the program's Edit menu, what is listed on the General page under Project Settings? 

And what resolution is your output video?

 

If by "quality TIFs" you mean resolution, the resolution of your photos is only one factor in the resolution of the finished video. In fact, if add a really high-rez photo to a project that is low resolution, you're just wasting pixels. 

 

What is the measurement, in pixels, of the height and width of your photos? What is your project's setting?

I
ipkAuthor
Participant
April 21, 2021

Thanks Steve The project settings are:
editing mode HD 1080i, Timebase 29.97 frames/second
Frame size 1920 horizontal 1080 vertical. Display format 30fps drop-frame
timecode. Title safe area 20% horizontal and vertical, Action safe area
10% horizontal and vertical. Pixel aspect ratio Square pixels (1.0)
Fields upper field first. Audio sample rate 48000Hz, display format Audio
samples.

Since posting this I have used another Adobe premiere elements 2020 file
which works fine on YouTube as a template, removed the assets for this
video, added the assets for Valse Locrienne and it is fine on YouTube. It
doesn't answer the question of what was wrong with the original VL file but
at least I have a good quality video on YouTube now.
Ian Phillips-Kerr
[personal info deleted by mod]

Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement
Using the community Terms of use Privacy Cookie preferences Do not sell or share my personal information ad choicesAdChoices