Preview Screen Bad Quality / Blurry HELP

Joelkellyfilms

Newbie Joined: May 16, 2017 00:34 Messages: 2 Offline

Solved by

May 16, 2017 00:50

Hi I am new to Power Director, I am having an issue with the quality displayed in the preview and am concerned that that will be the quality of the final product.

I have viewed the clips in windows media player and they are crystal clear.. However when I put them into Power director and preview in the preview screen they are blurry and look shit.

I have the preview screen quality set to full HD and have it set to real time however its still shit quality.

I know the quality of the actual video clip is not bad as I have viewed it in other players, I geuss my question is once it is rendered will it come out in 1080p full hd? or will it remain in this shit blurry quality.

And/OR is there something I am not doing right when importing the files to Power director from my Desktop?

Cheers Joel

BarryTheCrab

Senior Contributor Location: USA Joined: Nov 06, 2008 22:18 Messages: 6240 Offline

May 16, 2017 05:35

Dear Joel, welcome to the volunteer forum.
We try to keep a family-friendly kind of discourse here so please restrain yourself from describing things as "poop".

Anyway, it would help to know what type of file and from what camera you are getting poopy previews!
And if you could provide a dxdiag about your computer, attached, it would go a long way in analysing your problem. Maybe you could even attach a 5-10 second sample of a file directly from the camera, no editing. Last i want assure you that the preview quality does not affect the final outcome.

This message was edited 3 times. Last update was at May 16. 2017 06:01

HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
Nvidia GTX 960(4GB)/16GB DDR3/
Canon Vixia HV30/HF-M40/HF-M41/HF-G20/Olympus E-PL5.
Tape capture using 6 VCR, TBC-1000, Elite BVP4+, Sony D8 camcorder with TBC.
https://www.facebook.com/BarryAFTT

Longedge

Senior Contributor Joined: Apr 28, 2011 15:38 Messages: 1504 Offline

May 16, 2017 07:28

Quote I know the quality of the actual video clip is not bad as I have viewed it in other players, I geuss my question is once it is rendered will it come out in 1080p full hd? or will it remain in this shit blurry quality.

It seems to be a common misconception that the preview window is something more than an editing tool. Setting the quality at anything higher than you need to see your edits is a waste of computing power. If you've got a 'real beast' of a computer then it won't matter but for most of us it just slows things down unnecessarily.

You speak of "other players" but the preview window is not there to be used as a player, it's just for previews in the same way perhaps that an artist would not put his rough sketches on display at an exhibition of his work.

The real question as you say is what are the finished videos like and the way to find that out surely is to do a test render. In my experience, the end results are indistinguishable from my source material.

Frankster69

Member Joined: Apr 13, 2017 13:32 Messages: 68 Offline

May 16, 2017 09:35

Perhaps there are residual 'shadow files' still existing, which 'take over' in preview mode.

Check this video, it explains it very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDIMAy5lDec

regards, Frank

Joelkellyfilms

Newbie Joined: May 16, 2017 00:34 Messages: 2 Offline

Jun 05, 2017 07:02

Quote Perhaps there are residual 'shadow files' still existing, which 'take over' in preview mode.

Check this video, it explains it very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDIMAy5lDec

regards, Frank

Thanks Frank, This answered my question, once I rendered it and produced it came out full quality.

I found it difficuly coming from using final cut pro on mac where the preview quality is the final quality...

Cheers