h264's quality not up to expectations
 

Everyone rants and raves about how beautiful and wonderful h264 renders out video but I am still scratching my head. Every time I use it the image gets very washed out. I understand it is worlds smaller file size wise, but the image looks so much worse than an avi. Can anyone chime in on this and set me straight? Will it always look washed out?

www.kiukle.com/temp/h264.jpg

Nathan:

Better state your specs, OS, editor, and where the codec is derived from. I ve noticed similar issues trying to edit and render on PC side using Quicktime codecs, and I'm guessing it extends to H264 stuff.

PC with win XP using premiere pro 2 and AE CS2. the codec is in Premiere, AE, i`ve run it out with errr....i fogot the name right now....Framework something, and through Tmpgenc 4 with the same exact results

Quality settings vastly influence the final result. Please give us more details about the settings that you used.

highest quality. Thats the only setting it has. It has a bar from low quality > highest.