On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:03:35 -0700, "Pupkin" wrote:

>I'm having some trouble importing images into premiere without losing
>quality. I did some searches and found a few supposed tips to fix this, but
>none of them worked.
>
>Every time I import a high quality, high resolution image into Premiere it
>becomes distorted when in preview mode/exported.
>
>Does anyone regularly successfully import images into Premiere and can you
>tell me what settings you use?

Either make the graphic in 4:3 proportion (at 2X works
well - and you can add a background, if desired, to
keep the proportion correct, and this also helps to
keep the part of the image of interest within the
TV-safe area). If the image is not 4:3, select
"maintain aspect ratio" (you can use the "clip"
filter to add borders of any color). Also, do not
oversharpen the original - bright edges tend to "buzz"
in video if you do (sometimes adding a slight amount
of vertical "better gaussian blur" to the image
helps...). If you move the graphic, make the original
large and use "image pan" ("motion" works with
720-640x480, and looks worse...).