Poor quality video export despite using high-quality settings

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February 8, 2022
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No matter what I do, all my video exports have poor quality. Here's an example frame from the exported video, which is gross and pixelated:

Roughly the same point in the original video:

While the sequence consists of many videos and photos, the above video what was initially dropped into the sequence, so the sequence should have used this video for its default settings.

It was taken on a GoPro Hero 9. Here's the video's properties:

I also have videos from an iPhone 12 Pro Max and photos from I think three devices. They were all added to the sequence after that initial GoPro video.

Here's the sequence settings:

(Yes, I changed the color space of the iPhone videos.)

I've tried many different export settings. They all produce poor quality video. Here's an example:

In addition to the above, I've also tried these:

H.264 with Match Source - High bitrate
MPEG2 with Match Source - High bitrate

In case it matters, I am using a Dell XPS 13 9310 running Windows 11, fully patched and updated. I am running Premiere Pro 22.2.0 (Build 128), which was updated just this morning.

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Murat333262571bew

Participant

This i crazy, I have been trying to figure this out for 6 hours now. No solution, I have changed my sequence settings, changed my output and matched with my source, watched 5 youtube videos to see if I did anything wrong, can't seem to solve it, I've put 7 hours editing and almost the same time trying to export this crap. How can adobe make something so "easy" to fix so complicated? This frustration is out of this freaking world

Warren Heaton

Community Expert

If you'd like assistance, please open a source clip in MediaInfo and post a screenshot of the "Tree View".

You can use "Get Properties" in Premiere Pro instead, but it is not as detailed.

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Giannis25149410hwod

Participant

I'm having the same issue...I'm pretty sure there's something going on with the bitrate. My source is 150Mbps 4k30 and no matter what kind of bitrate i set, anything above 65Mbps will NOT export at the target bitrate and will result in pixelated low quality videos. I've tried every possible setting. The default High Quality 4k setting will target bitrate 80Mbps and will even estimate a 1Gb file but the exported video file will be 150Mb and a bitrate of 15Mbps-30Mbps. So i think it's a hardware encoding limitation.

Averdahl

Community Expert

No matter what I do, all my video exports have poor quality.

By @Aren Cambre

As a test, how does it look if you export it to ProRes LT?

Make also sure that your footage is not variable frame rate. Use the free Shutter Encoder encoding|converting video FREE PC|Mac to convert the footage to constant frame rate.