Colour balance issues

starseekergem · Post by **starseekergem** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:00 am

When I try and change the colour balance of a clip in Premier Elements, one of the clips ends up looking pixellated. Does anyone know how I might fix it?

It only happens when I add the colour balance.
Comparison of before and after

Bauzi · Post by **Bauzi** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:15 am

uhm... I can´t see a difference in thermes of pixelate and I´m really nitpicky on visual quality.

The only thing I can say:
If you don´t have a perfect source (and even after cleaning up your DVDs you still get it, but in smaller amounts), you get mackroblocking on things like setting the contrast higher. It something you can´t really deny. So you have to make it in a different way with the same solution.

ok... I think it looks fine and I can´t see pixellated stuff.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:19 am

is there more movement where the pixelation is showing up? cause i cant see it in the screencap either... though her hair blends into her face...

starseekergem · Post by **starseekergem** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:17 am

It looks much worse when it's encoded to Xvid. I'll try re-ripping the footage the long way round instead of using FFmovX2

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 1:24 pm

Due to choma sub-sampling, very bright and saturated colors like red can look blocky when compressed. Solution is to make the red less saturated.