Premiere Elents 2018

[bham789]

When I playback a video the quality is not good. If I play back using VLC it is perfect. I am not talking about editing videos just viewing videos I have taken which are stored in Organiser.

Is there any way I can make the playback use VLC rather than what it is actually using?

[kglad]

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[Steve Grisetti]

Depends on the specs of the video. 

Open your video in the free download MediaInfo. In MediaInfo, set View to Text and then copy the text of this report and paste it to this forum. With that additional information, we'll better be able to advise you.

It might also help to know which processor you have and with how much RAM.

[bham789]

Thanks for the response.

Here is the text:

General
ID : 0 (0x0)
Complete name : E:\Photos\Adobe\Documents\Photos\Photos\00008-26-1.MTS
Format : BDAV
Format/Info : Blu-ray Video
File size : 104 MiB
Duration : 50 s 408 ms
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 17.3 Mb/s
Maximum Overall bit rate : 18.0 Mb/s
Recorded date : 2022-08-14 14:09:14+00:00
Writing application : Panasonic

Video
ID : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4
Format settings : 2 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, Reference frames : 2 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=12
Codec ID : 27
Duration : 50 s 440 ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 16.4 Mb/s
Maximum bit rate : 17.1 Mb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan type, store method : Separated fields
Scan order : Top Field First
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.316
Stream size : 98.5 MiB (95%)

Audio
ID : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Commercial name : Dolby Digital
Codec ID : 129
Duration : 50 s 464 ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 1.16 MiB (1%)
Service kind : Complete Main

Text
ID : 4608 (0x1200)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS
Codec ID : 144
Duration : 49 s 976 ms

My processor is Intel Core(TM) i9-10900k CPU @ 3.7 Ghz 10 Cores

RAM is 16 GB

This video is an MTS file but other videos (eg MP4) are the same. The outlines are pixilated and a bit blurred. VLC plays them just fine.

Hope this helps

[Steve Grisetti]

I don't see anything here that would cause you problems. It looks like a pretty standard AVC file. It appears to be from an AVCHD camcorder.

Look at your Project Settings. Go to the Edit menu and look at the General page under Project Setttings. Ensure that it shows 1920x1080 25 fps PAL.

If these project settings are the same as your video specs, there's something funny going on that isn't immediately obvious. If so, I'll show you how to troubleshoot the issue.

[bham789]

The project settings seems to be if I launch Premier Elements to start an editing session. What I am talking about is just playing a video clip from Organiser so I can look at the pictures and videos I have taken. So from Organiser I double click on the video then get a brief message "preparing file for playback" then it plays but in poor quality including pixellating.

[Steve Grisetti]

I'm sorry. I really don't know enough to speak for the performance of the Organizer's preview window.

[bham789]

I've spent ages more trying to sort this issue but I’m still in the position where video files with .mts extension play back very poorly in the Photoshop Elements organiser but perfectly in Windows Media Player or VLC. I have even just upgraded to Elements 2023 to see if that improves things but it doesn’t.

For me the answer would be if I could choose an external player from the Elements Organiser but it doesn’t permit this.

[bham789]

I've sorted this problem now. The issue is that my compact camera was set up to record video in interlaced mode rather than progressive. Changing this has fixed the problem.

I'm amazed that over several years Adobe does not seem to have realised this! There must be thousands of people who have had this problem.