losing video quality during/after editing

[cthopkin]

Device: Sony Handycam 1080HD

When I upload to Premiere the footage quality decreases. How should I set my settings so that my quality is maintained? Sometimes when I upload to Youtube, the quality does look better when I set the quality on there.

Also, how to remove grainy images? I know there is a noise/grain effect in Premiere, but are there any tips for my camera?

[Ann Bens]

Make sure you playback is set to full.

Footage imported into Premiere does not lose quality as its a non destructive editor.

Check the manual on noise/grain effect in Premiere. Its not what you think it is or should do.

[cthopkin]

Thanks for the response. How do I change the playback to full?

[Ann Bens]

In the Program Monitor there is a dropdown button for playback resolution.

[Apokalion]

you say that, but my adobe literally downgraded the resolution of my video during editing from 1080p to 720p all on his own and i can't bring it back, if i try to export it it says that the original resolution of the video was 720p but it's not true. it clearly is 1080p.

[Michael Grenadier]

Are your sequence settings 1080?  

control click on a clip in the timeline and choose "reveal in finder" and open it in media info 

https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download

and see if it's 1080 or not.  If it's 1080, try and try unlinking the files in premiere and relinking them.