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August 30, 2018
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Poor quality in colours and text after rendering

  • August 30, 2018
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Hi, could anyone help me. After I render a video in Ae cc 2018 (H.264, Match Source-High Bitrate)  both colours and text lose quality. Any ideas why?

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    Correct answer Mylenium

    Looks okay?! I mean you are starting out with a very low resolution. This will never look particularly crisp. Feel free to increase the bitrate in your H.264 output, but there's really not much you can do. Even the source footage is already is blurry in places and re-compressing it again won't do anything to make it look better.

    Mylenium

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    SpaceMountainMike
    SpaceMountainMike
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    April 18, 2022

    I have the same problem with Pinnacle Studio 11. attatched are the original source material (no subtitles) and after rendering (with subtitles)

    angie_taylor
    angie_taylor
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    August 31, 2018

    In that case, output via Adobe Media Encoder and choose the Facebook preset from the Web delivery presets :-) Im afarid there will be slight color differences but they should be acceptable :-)

    stylianio16725103
    stylianio16725103Author
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    August 31, 2018

    Thank you all for your help

      angie_taylor
      angie_taylor
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      August 30, 2018

      If you don’t want to lose quality and keep colours consistent you’d be better using a lossless codec like the PNG codec. However the format is dictated by where it will be played. Where will it be shown eventually?

      Mylenium
      Mylenium
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      August 30, 2018

      Impossible to say. Of course a compressed format like H.264 will always degenerate quality at least a tiny bit, but without exact info and screenshots we can't tell you what might be wrong and what to do to fix it.

      Mylenium

      stylianio16725103
      stylianio16725103Author
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      August 30, 2018

      Thanks for your reply. This is a screenshot of the composition's settings:

      also this is before rendering:

      and this is after:

      Please let me know if you need any other info. Thank you!

      stylianio16725103
      stylianio16725103Author
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      August 31, 2018

      Looks okay?! I mean you are starting out with a very low resolution. This will never look particularly crisp. Feel free to increase the bitrate in your H.264 output, but there's really not much you can do. Even the source footage is already is blurry in places and re-compressing it again won't do anything to make it look better.

      Mylenium


      Thank you, that was the issue, the fact that the composition was 480 x 264 px. I created a new composition 1280x 720 px, from scratch this time, and everything looks fine after rendering (apart from the source footage which was indeed very low resolution to begin with).

      Thank you!

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