Video rendering - why does it look like crap?

[softserv]

Hey all -

I'm wondering why, when I render a video in Live 8.2, it is all pixelated. The original video (something I made in iMovie HD (a terrible program, by the way) is fine quality. But I put it in Live, warp it on the Complex Pro setting, match it up with my audio track using warp markers, and when I export it, the quality is dramatically reduced. I render it as a Quicktime Movie.

I've tried rendering it at the highest quality setting, and I've tried rendering it without warping the video clip at all, just to see if it was better, but no luck. Anyone know how to deal with this?

Thanks

DJ Super Squirrel

[uku]

Hi, I haven't tried this yet in v8 but I assume this is the same as I've experienced with Live 7. It appears that when you render a movie from Ableton it re-compresses the video. That's it. I haven't figured out a way to get it to not do that either.

My workaround:

Render the audio only out of Live, using whichever audio format you'd like to hear in your final video.

Then, open the sound file using Quicktime 7. Also open a copy of the original video file that you imported into Live.

Set the in/out points on your audio file as the first and last frame, and hit ctrl-C (COPY). Then on the first frame of your video, select EDIT>ADD TO MOVIE. Unless you did some weird video editing in Ableton (obviously not recommended if its even possible), your audio should sync up as intended with the "original" video file (You did remember to make a copy of the original first right?).

Finally, you'll need to SAVE AS a new self-contained movie.

[softserv]

Thank you very much! I'll try that.