On 19 Nov 2002 12:12:09 -0800, leo@leobynum.com (Leo) wrote:

>I have quality DV clips shot with a Cannon XL-1 that has been captured
>by using premiere to an .AVI file on my hard drive.
>
>Editing these clips in Premiere, I notice that the image quality is
>poor in the monitor/playback windows. (jaggies aliasing and
>decompression artifacts)
>
>The clip quality is also poor in real player.
>
>It was poor in Windows Media Player until I adjusted the display
>properties (Win 2000/XP control panel) from "Hardware Accelleration:
>full" to "none". With the setting on "none", the playback is crisp.
>This proves that it is not a problem in the .AVI file.
>
>Questions:
>
>1) Are there properties that I can set in Premiere so the playback in
>the monitor window is crisp? If so, where are they?
>
>2) Do I care? Meaning: should I just forget about it, do the editing
>"as is" because the quality of the final output movie is not affected
>by the playback monitor quality?
>
>Thanks in advance,

If you are using "square pixels", a single full-resolution
preview window (720x480 NTSC), and hardware overlay
(Canopus card, with converter and analogue feedback to
the card), you can see every bit of detail that is in the
original footage when there is little motion - but due to the
differences in displays for computer monitors (PS-mode)
and TVs (interlaced), you will see the interlace "combing"
on the computer display with motion... If you are using
software overlay and other than correct full resolution,
the display will be softer than the original - but the
image will be OK on export...