Poor Produced Video Quality from PD15 - can't figure out why !

Dahlilama

Newbie Joined: Sep 17, 2016 00:20 Messages: 3 Offline

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Sep 17, 2016 00:49

Have been trying for days to produce a video using MP4, 1080P video from a Phantom 4 drone. The raw videos are 30mbps, 30 fps, mp4 of lake water scenes and they play flawlessly, without any artifacts. When I bring them into power director 15, edit their lengths, and produce the edited video the produced video quality is reduced.....specifically I am seeing "fringing" in the water wavelets, and slight pixelation elsewhere. I have tried avery CODEC in the menu, bitrate, and fideled with all the video production options, but no dice. When I bring the same raw videos into my comparatively simplistic GOPRO Studio video editor, the produced video appears fine !!! So it can't be a problem with my computer.

I entered a help ticket with Cyberlink, sent them the required additional info, but the communication has gone cold !! Any suggestions out there !!

tomasc

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline

Sep 17, 2016 10:35

Try this: Right mouse click on the drone clip on the timeline and go to Set Clip Attributes/Set TV Format and look at the popup window. Does it say the video clip is interlaced or progressive? Let us know.

Dahlilama

Newbie Joined: Sep 17, 2016 00:20 Messages: 3 Offline

Sep 17, 2016 11:21

progressive.

tomasc

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline

Sep 17, 2016 11:52

Thank You. Progressive is correct for that drone video. In the produce page click the intelligent svrt button. If svrt is not available then you can create a custom profile based on what is displayed in the window.

You can also select and use one of the default mpeg-4 profiles like 1920x1080/30p (16Mbps). That is about half of the original 30Mbps that you listed. It should work and still give you good quality.

Dahlilama

Newbie Joined: Sep 17, 2016 00:20 Messages: 3 Offline

Sep 18, 2016 16:30

Thanks. I got it to work. It seems that some of the clips were set to Progressive and some not. I suspect this was screwing up Powerdirector such that the final rendering was off. It is fixed now !! The final rendered production is fine.

Thanks again.

AlS

Senior Member Location: South Africa Joined: Sep 23, 2014 18:07 Messages: 290 Offline

Oct 03, 2016 07:24

Dahlilama - Thanks - I want a Phantom 4!
Back to quality. After you fixed the progressive problem, have you done a comparison of output quality from PDR15 vs GoPro Studio using same clips, bitrate etc??
GP Studio still produces better 1080p output quality visually for me and I'm not sure why.
Compare MediaInfo on both output H.264 MP4 output files.
Al
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