Terrible export quality

[Guest]

Hello,

I'm using the trial version of Premiere Elements and am having an issue with the export quality being extremely low.  Even the title card is not as clear as it should be.  I'm trying to export as a 4K video file on high quality (also tried it on mid quality).  The files I am using are both .avi and one of them comes out okay, but the other is just really low quality on export.  Here are the file information:

File 1 (this one exports fine)

AVI file format

2560x1440

3538944 kbps

30 fps

File 2 (this one is the one that exports all blurry)

AVI file format

3840x2160

1411 kbps

60 fps

My Desktop:

Windows 10 Professional 64-bit

AMD FX 8350

16GB of RAM

SAPPHIRE VAPOR-X Radeon R9 290

Footage and export are being stored on a 4TB external HDD on USB3

Both of these came from Mirillis' Action! screen recorder.  File 1 is web cam footage and File 2 is a screen recording of my desktop.  I have disabled the hardware accelerator to see if that was causing the issue and it was not.

I'm not sure if this is just a limitation of the trial version or if there is a setting I need to modify. 

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[Steve Grisetti]

These are not standard consumer video formats, so Premiere Elements can not set up your project to match your video. It's also likely this Mirillis screen recording is using non-standard codecs.

Open one of your video files in the free download MediaInfo. In MediaInfo, set View to Text and then copy and paste the report it generates to this forum.

This will tell us what these video files are made of and what types of compression are being used. Once we know the specs, we can better recommend a course of action. But most likely Premiere Elements is not the best tool for editing this type and resolution of video.

[Guest]

Format                                   : AVI

Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave

Format profile                           : OpenDML

File size                                : 1.48 GiB

Duration                                 : 11 min 15 s

Overall bit rate                         : 18.8 Mb/s

Video

ID                                       : 0

Format                                   : FICV

Codec ID                                 : FICV

Duration                                 : 11 min 15 s

Bit rate                                 : 17.4 Mb/s

Width                                    : 3 840 pixels

Height                                   : 2 160 pixels

Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9

Frame rate                               : 60.000 FPS

Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.035

Stream size                              : 1.37 GiB (92%)

Audio

ID                                       : 1

Format                                   : PCM

Format settings                          : Little / Signed

Codec ID                                 : 1

Duration                                 : 11 min 15 s

Bit rate mode                            : Constant

Bit rate                                 : 1 411.2 kb/s

Channel(s)                               : 2 channels

Sampling rate                            : 44.1 kHz

Bit depth                                : 16 bits

Stream size                              : 114 MiB (7%)

Alignment                                : Aligned on interleaves

Interleave, duration                     : 10  ms (0.60 video frame)

[Ann Bens]

If you are trying to export file 1 as a UDH file then yes it will get blurry as you are scaling the image up.

[Steve Grisetti · Accepted solution]

As you can see, the video uses a proprietary codec called FICV, unique to the software you're using to record your screen.

You simply are not going to get good performance with Premiere Elements editing this video. I would look into another program. Try CyberLink PowerDirector.

[Guest]

Thanks for the help!  I will give it a try and see if it works out