I am having a lot of trouble with my 1440x1080 footage and I'm desperate for help.
My camera accidentally recorded at 1440x1080 instead of the 1920x1080 that I usually use. The original footage looks fine, but I am having a terrible time figuring out how to export my footage so it doesn't end up looking like garbage. I've tried tons of advice I've found on the internet (and in this forum) but none of it results in footage that looks anything like the original.
In order to show the problem, I used VLC to take snapshots of the footage. They both look okay! I had to take an actual screenshot for the difference to be visible.
Original footage:
Screenshot of footage exporeted from Premiere Pro:
When the video is in motion, there is a weird pixelization around people when they move. The edges are all rough and blocky.
I have tried exporting this in so many ways. What am I doing wrong?
Also, here are snippets on YouTube of both the raw footage and rendered using the "Match Highest Bitrate".
Raw footage: https://youtu.be/AiBefJErJww
"Highest Bitrate": https://youtu.be/P6GE_vCaqWE
Any help would be amazing. This has confused me for hours.
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I found some more information using the Codec information in VLC.
Here is what it shows for the original footage:
And, for example, here's what it looks like when I rendered the footage at Full HD Prog:
I am happy to provide any other details. Thanks to everyone who's chiming in.
I am happy to provide any other details. Thanks to everyone who's chiming in.
By @joe_7305
Try this:
- Create a new timeline that is 1920x1080, Pixel Aspect Ratio=1.0, Timebase 29.97, Field Order=Upper Field first.
- Place your footage on the timeline
- Export as 1920x1080, Pixel Aspect Ratio=1.0, Frame Rate=29.97, Field Order =Progressive and consider to set the encoding to CBR and bump up the Target Bitrate to 20.
If that fails as well, Export again but go to the Encoding Settings and set the Performance to Software Encoding this time.
Thanks for the detailede walkthrough, but I ended up with the same results. Also, it turns out it was already Software Encoding and Hardware encoding isn't available for my system.
You can see a screenshot of the how it looks for me here.
Thanks for the detailede walkthrough, but I ended up with the same results.
By @joe_7305
But you did not set the timeline to Upper Field First. Placing interlaced media in a timeline that is set to Progressive is not great. So, click in your timeline and go to Sequence > Sequence Settings and change Fields from Progressive to Upper Field First. While you are there, change the Sample Rate of your audio from 88200 Hz you have today to 48000 Hz. How did it get set to 88200 Hz?
Re: ProRes
I am unfamliar with this level of media detail so I had to do some searching. From what I found, you *should* be able to right-click on a media file in your bin, choose Proxy > Create Proxy > and then pick a ProRes option. When I do this, a meter shows up as if work is being done, it fills immeidately, and no file is created.
I used the Media Encoder to convert the file, but it returned the same result. Here were my settings:
Please let me know what I might have done wrong.
Your output settings should be 1920x1080 at a Square (1.0) pixel aspect ratio. Apologies, I left out steps in my earlier reply. For me, Media Encoder defaulted to the "NTSC DV Widescreen" preset - I changed the settings as listed below:
If that still doesn't work, I've created a Media Encoder preset based on those settings - try importing that and give it a whirl.
My goal with this path is to create 1920x1080 files with square pixels to use as your source files, instead of letting Premiere read/convert them on the timeline. Again, not sure this is the best solution, but how I would go about solving.
Here is a short clip of test footage we ran when setting up. Maybe someone can fiddle with it and figure out what I'm doing wrong.
By @joe_7305
I downloaded the file and it comes out great if i did the same i wrote earlier. Follow those steps and don´t create a Progressive timeline.
There really is something about this video format and my system or version of Premiere.
By @joe_7305
There is nothing wrong with the format itself since it works here so there is something at your end that causes the issue.
- What version of Premiere Pro do you use, version+Build number? (Help > About Premiere Pro)
- Post a screen dump of your Sequence Settings.
- Post a screen dump of your Export Settings, similat to the one i posted here.
Premiere vers. 22.6.2 (build 2)
And I'll go through the last few steps we did and provide output details.
- Using this file (https://we.tl/t-vymK9orlKX) I am going to render it using the Preset created by @Hutch Harris since we know this worked for him.
- Here are my Sequence settings. I creatd the Sequence based off of the clip (dragging it to the "New" button and creating a Sequence). I then compared it to the settings @Averdahl suggested before.
- I render this clip using the aforementioned Preset. Here are those settings:
- This is the result:
Compare that to the same moment in the video @Hutch Harris rendered using the same settings:You can especially see the difference in the cord.
- Now, there is one difference I notice possibly worth noting: for some reason, the total file size for my render is slightly different than @Hutch Harris's render. Mine is 138mb and theirs is 133mb. May be nothing, but I wanted to add it here.
Let me know if you notice anything I can try. Thanks again for taking the time to help.
- Here are my Sequence settings. I creatd the Sequence based off of the clip (dragging it to the "New" button and creating a Sequence). I then compared it to the settings @Averdahl suggested before.
By @joe_7305
No, read once again. I never suggested or wrote that you should drag the clip to the New Item icon. So read once again and do what i wrote. Not sure that it will solve the issue since Pr should be ok doing it the way you do, but for testing purposes it can show that it fix the issue, or not fix the issue.
You can of course drag the clip to the New Item button, but make sure to change the settings if you do.
And there is no need to convert the clip to ProRes, before import or upon export, since Premiere Pro handles the file without issues here.
Have you tried in a newer version of Premiere Pro, such as the latest 24.6.1 Build 2 or even the Beta version? It´s worth to at least try it since your version may have a bug when going from 1440x1080 to 1920x1080. You can install 24.6.1 or the beta (25) while keep the version you have now intact.
I think my overall workflow plan got a bit lost; Averdahl & I are approaching differently. (Averdahl's approach is objectively more efficient & technically correct, but I am also confident mine would work.)
So I am going to sort of start from scratch and list out how I think you can solve:
Before doing anything else, run that short "00000.MTS" file through Media Encoder (not Premiere!) using that preset I had sent (1440x1080 to 1920x1080 ProRes-Progressive.epr). You should have a clean-looking ProRes version of that raw clip. If not, then the rest of my post is not going to work for you. But assuming it looks good...
- Run all of your raw footage through Media Encoder using that preset I had sent. You'll get some big files from this, make sure you have appropriate storage available.
- Either change your existing sequence settings OR create a new sequence with settings as follows:
(Previews can be whatever format you prefer, but make sure the size is 1920x1080) - The newly transcoded ProRes clips are meant to replace your source footage. So if you have changed your existing sequence, you'll need to replace all your MTS clips with the ProRes re-encodes.
If you are creating a new sequence from scratch, you'll have to rebuild your edit. I recommend creating a new sequence just to eliminate as much error as possible.** - Export using the Match Source - Adaptive High Bitrate Preset.
- You should have a good-looking final file.
As I alluded to, this is almost certainly not the most efficient way to handle this type of footage. But somewhere, settings are getting lost, so this is the most straightforward way to solve that I can come up with. As a bonus, the ProRes stuff should also be much quicker to work with since its all-i. Good luck!!
**I'm only recommending this because it sounds like you're just adding a graphic opening/closing to this, and there aren't many/any edits.
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