Hi Shooter762556

Regarding preview when your clips are dragged to timeline, you have chosen preview quality here, yes?




Just something.
https://www.petitpoisvideo.com

Your step 6 above should look fine on the timeline after you set the preview quality as shown by 1Nina. That is only preview resolution not the true resolution.

Hey Nina and Tom

I have the preview quality set to full HD

I messed around in the settings and was able to produce a finished movie that is full HD quality. The problem now is that I don't knoiw what exactly I adjusted to fix it. I am brand new to this software so I still have a lot of learning to do. Thank you both for your help!

Hi Shooter762556,
Brand new - ok, you need to do a few simple things to make the most of what you have.
1. Check the HD spec of your video (being edited), Use MediaInfo as this will give you the full properties. (you may like to share the data with us, so we can help you).
2. Select Highest Preview quality, often Full HD just stresses your GPU and will affect your display/usage of PDR over a longer period of editing (causes slow preview/hanging).
3. Using a diagnostic, check the spec of your computer (give us the info so we can help you) and see if you should not be using Shadow edit Files, most beginners have this switched on and it is unnecessary (a waste of time/resources for your computer) on powerful computers.
3. In Produce, select a profile or create a Custom Profile or select Intelligent SVRT to create a profile that matches you video. This is to ensure you maintain the fullest video quality IF the intention is to output to match the original footage.
Guide, A, B & J: http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/40225.page

Just trying to assist

Dafydd

Hi Matt

If you are confident your computer is the business, the following should give you good results.

I am assuming you're using 1920*1080P - frame rate unknown.

On the PRODUCE page, select H264 AVC. beneath that Select MP4 - beneath that - Select PROFILE TYPE > ALL.

PROFILE NAME/QUALITY select 1920*1080P (frame rate to match your project)

PAL or NTSC as you require for your area.

Go to the Output folder selection - choose output folder and name file.

Select START

Your perfect video should be on it's way to the output folder - fingers crossed Panny TM10, GH2, GH4,

Same boat with awful resolution. I am using PD15 to convert GotoMeeting videos. Tried the above options with to no avail. Using both WMV and MP4 source formats.I have done the same with Windows Movie Maker, but really like PD15's subtitles feature.

Unfortunately the videos are worthless. Wasn't expecting this. At least I am only out the morning. Too bad for me.

Hi KRH2015 ,
Please start a new topic so members can answer you.

Looks to me you're making the wrong choices and/or the input video isn't of a high enough quality compared with your selected output.

In your new topic, please provide a diagnostic, PDR13 info, and MediaInfo on your original video. Add to that a screenshot of your Edit workspace and we'll have some idea as to what's going on.

Guide, A, B, E, F & J: http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/40225.page

New topic please.

Dafydd

Hi KRH2015

I assume you mean PD13 - PD 15 is still just a far off dream.

We need more information to understand your problem. I am sure it will be one of settings in production

Tell us about your source video. What camera - file type e.g. MP4 and what resolution it is, such as 1920*1080P and what is the frame rate.

Are you talking poor quality after, or before production.

Please give this info in a new thread as suggested above Panny TM10, GH2, GH4,

Hi Shooter762556 -

In an effort to try to replicate your issue - drop in quality in timeline and produced file - I downloaded some sample clips from a Contour Roam 3 at http://www.techmoan.com/blog/2014/10/13/the-contour-roam3-helmet-cam-review.html

N.B. I'm doing this on a lowly i7-920 8GB RAM with GTX260 with preview set to Full HD

Image & playback quality in media library and timeline is identical - there's no drop in quality when the clip is inserted in the timeline.

Produced to 1920x1080 MP4 using SVRT to compare image quality with original clips. I can't spot any visual difference. MediaInfo reported the two as virtually identical.

Side by side screenshot attached showing (a) original clip in media library (b) original clip in timeline (c) produced clip in timeline.

When overlaying/masking the original clip & produced file, I did notice some inconsistency... possibly caused by distortion in the original clip (e.g. curved lamp posts & walls).

S0 - if you're seeing such a terrible difference, there's something else at play beyond "PDR13 kills video quality" because PDR13 doesn't (apparently) kill video quality here.

Cheers - Tony
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Thank all,
I messed around with some settings and am able to get full HD quality produced video. Thanks for all of your help. Not quite sure what the exact issue was but I have it "ballparked" so it should be easy to identify next time if there is a next time. The video looks great now!