Blurry Pictures in Premiere

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July 21, 2012
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Hello,

I have created a slide show in Photoshop Elements 10. I clicked on output to send it to Premiere Elements 10 because my pictures were blurry/pixilated when I viewed them in full screen preview, but they were not blurry/pixilated in the screen above the timeline.

Once I had my slide show in Premiere, I finished making edits, created a DVD menu for it and then went to burn it to a DVD. None of the pictures were blurry in the screen above the sceneline. When I went to burn it to a DVD, I unchecked the box "fit to available space" and slid the quality slider all the way to the right. Most of the pictures were fine, but some are still blurry/pixilated.

Why is this happening and how can I correct it? Please provide detailed steps as I have only been using Premiere for about 2 weeks.

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Correct answer the_wine_snob

Hi John,

I reviewed the article and am now more confused than before. What measurement is 720 by 480?

I made a folder of the images I want to resize, then created the sub-folder. I opened Photoshop and clicked on process multiple files. I located my folders and opened them to the window and was then ready to resize. Is the 720 by 480 in pixels? There are several options in the drop menu. The article did not mention anything regarding the resolution.

With Video, it is ONLY the pixel x pixel dimensions that matter. The DPI, or PPI, are meaningless. They apply to printing, and to Web/computer display, but do not matter for Video. Scale to match the Project's Frame Size.

Good luck,

Hunt

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Anonymous

I'm having the same issue with photos. I started a project with the Standard48kHz 720 x 480 settings. I usually didn't worry too much about the size of photos in previous projects but in this one, I noticed the photos were a bit blurry so I resized everything to 720 x 480 through photoshop - photos are still blurry. Since I was on version 9, I decided to upgrade to 11 but the problem is still there. I've rendered the video (no red lines) without success.

In other threads, the question comes up "what do you mean by blurry?" In my case, I can best define it as if you did a slight Gaussian Blur in photoshop....the entire photo looks as if you need glasses.

I'm a user going all the way back to I think Pre 2 and never had this issue. The only thing that I've changed over the years is I just switched from a PC to a MAC. All my projects (approx 20) that were done on a PC didn't have this issue.

the_wine_snob

Inspiring

Can you post a couple of screen-caps, please?

I would do one from Photoshop, showing the Scaled Image open there, and then one of the Program Monitor in PrE, sized about the same on your screen, so that we are looking at the two Images (the one in PS and the one in PrE) at about the same screen resolution. Might take some tweaking, to get them to be about the same size. Before doing the screen-cap in PrE, do Render your Timeline (or at least that Image), to show it at its best.

Good luck, and there is nothing that I can think of (not between PrE and PS, or between a Mac and a PC) to account for this, other than perhaps the display showing details (or lack thereof), that do not show in the other.

Good luck,

Hunt

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BigSkyPhotog

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I have the exact same issue. I used the default project settings. Images imported from Photoshop CS6 as 1920x1080 PSD files at 180dpi (no layers) input into Premiere Elements 11. If I burn an AVHCD format DVD images look great. When I burn a DVD in NTSC widescreen images and text both look blurry when played on laptop, desktop, DVD player on a 720p TV, and on a Blueray player with a 1080p TV.

My results are similar to what Copycat1 is describing.

I understand Steve's comment that NTSC is 720x480 but even when showing at a smaller size with Windows Media Player, quality is lacking even doing the deflicker trick Steve talked about.

My goal is to make a DVD that has both video (shot at 1080 on a Canon 5D Mark II) and still images with voiceover narration that I could give to people who attend a program. I wanted it to look professional. The still images are all photographs taken with the same Canon 5D2. Images are very detailed and sharp in Photoshop CS6. However I can only get good DVD output with AVHCD.

If I burn the project to a DVD disk in AVCHD the quality is very good, but it only plays in a blueray player.

If I burn the project to DVD in NTSC Widescreen, the still images and all text look blurry on every computer and both TVs.

If I save the project as an Web DVD or MPEG it plays fine on the computer but I cannot get a good burn that plays well on DVD.

After making the above post I saw comment 49 from David1216 about the project settings. I had started with the default Premiere Elements 11 settings for a project. As several of us have stated those will not provide clean output of still images to DVD. A kicker to that is you apparently cannot change the settings once you are in the project. At least I tried to no better luck on output. However if you START a new project and then change the settings to DSLR 1080p mode as David1216 suggested you can get a better output of still images in DVD format.

I started a new project and CHANGED SETTINGS to DSLR 1080p 30 at 29.27

Imported 2 video clips in 1080p from a Canon 5D2

Imported 10 still images from the Canon 5D2 that I had resized in Photoshop CS6 to 1920x1080 at 180dpi PSD files

Burned a DVD in NTSC Wide . I would grade the quality at a B+ on my laptop, as a B+ on blueray player with 1080p TV, and as a C- or D+ on a DVD player with a 720p TV.

Getting good playback on my laptop and the blueray player is a first as prior attempts from the default settings in Premiere Elements were ineffective with DVD output.

As a control I also burned a DVD (had to use DVD as I do not have a Blueray burner) with a AVHCD file. Played that on Blueray player and that gives "A" output.

I can accept and expect that the NRSC would not be as crsip as the AVHCD and the results I get now are more in line with what I expected all along. In other words burning a DVD in standard defination was ok but in HD its better.

I still may work on getting a version to play in the regular DVD player as the quality dropoff was steep between the Blueray and laptop with the same disk. Perhaps I shold have chosen DSLR 1080p 30 or perhaps 24?

nealeh

Inspiring

Most likely you are making your slideshow with high resolution images. PRE has to scale these down to DVD quality (720x480) which is not one of its strong points.

Use Photoshop Elements, or other preferred photo editing software, and resize those photos to 720x480 (NTSC), or 720 x 576 (PAL) before bringing them in to PRE.

If you want to do some pan and zoom you can make them a little bigger (1000 x 750).

Cheers,
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Neale
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