Best picture/color quallity settings

[Rannek]

Alright, i got a DVX100b and i've been trying to figure this **** out for quite a while and now i just decided im going to ask someone even if i sound stupid asking.

I am taking straight footage from a tape out of a DVX100b and putting it onto the computer. Im using Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0. Now i go to view it and it looks ugly. So i play around with it a bit, still looks ugly. Throw it in after affects, looks ugly. Finally put it in after effects > save as DV > then use MPEG_streamclip and compress it into a Quicktime .mov h.264 file with the best settings i could possibly get.

But then, i view the movie and you can only view it good in the tiniest size. Otherwise if its enlarged just a tiny bit or even full screen, it's like blurry as hell. I've tried everything, compressing in higher sizes, but i still can't find a way to get good crisp quallity picture with a camera that should perform very good.

Yes, i've de-interlaced (which makes it even look more blurry), but still hasnt fixed the case. Im just hoping that maybe some of you can share your output secrets with me or something so i can start getting some good footy. God i'd hate to put something on dvd like this and put it on my tv, it'd be impossible to see.

PS: the .mov file i've made so far looks pretty good, but again like i said IT HAS TO BE VERRRRY SMALL (240x120 or something like that, forgot). I've seen so many people save very big .mov files (not big as in mb / gigs, but big as in length and width)... there is a way i know.

 

[Rannek]

don't all rush in at once, take your time.

(actually what i meant was, wow this category must get alot of attention...)

 

[Demistate]

Unless your application requires a 30P look, I always suguest to editors that they don't de-interlace their footage. It throws away half of the resolution, and when you're trying to do an encode, keeping all of the resolution is essiental.

During your workflow don't try to change codecs unless you are going to final output. For example, you shot DV. So keep all of your files and intermediates in DV.

On P.pro 2.0 you can just export --> Movie and the default settings should be on DV.

Don't worry about de-interlacing, and changing things around untill you are at the step for final render. P.Pro 2.0's Adobe media encoder has a de-interlace tick, which uses a special frame interpolation method to get the most resolution out of de-interlacing. (Try it, 640x480 looks real crisp), while the de-interlace plugin in the editor doesn't look so hot.