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chris_snyder
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July 21, 2012
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Blurry Pictures in Premiere

  • 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
      November 22, 2012

      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
      the_wine_snob
      Inspiring
      November 22, 2012

      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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      Anonymous
      November 22, 2012

      The first one is a shot of the photo opened in Clip Monitor, the second is from the Timeline, the third is from Photoshop. The interesting thing is, I wanted to confirm that I had the correct settings so I imported the photo again, when rendering, the photo seemed to get worse after it was rendered.

      nealeh
      nealeh
      Inspiring
      July 22, 2012

      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,
      --
      Neale
      Insanity is hereditary, you get it from your children

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      chris_snyderAuthor
      Participating Frequently
      July 22, 2012

      Thanks for your help, and I did not mean to post it twice. I did that because of the comment that said to move it to the Premiere Elements forum.

      John T Smith
      Community Expert
      John T SmithCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      July 22, 2012

      Not Neale, but not a big problem on the duplicate post... takes people awhile to figure out forum navigation

      Important thing is... did the advice on scaling pictures outside of PreEl fix the problem?

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      Barbara_B_
      Inspiring
      July 22, 2012

      Moving to the premiere elements forum

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      chris_snyderAuthor
      Participating Frequently
      July 22, 2012

      What do you mean ?

      John T Smith
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      John T SmithCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      July 22, 2012

      More on Photo Scaling for Video http://forums.adobe.com/thread/450798

      -Too Large May = Crash http://forums.adobe.com/thread/879967

      -And another crash report http://forums.adobe.com/thread/973935

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