Still image quality in Premiere either, filter, original, better, option

andy

I've been out of the scene for a while and I forgot the fix for this.  I'm using Premiere 6.

I have an image and I used the motion filter on it to do a slow zoom in and pan.  I played with the field options, I THINK I disabled field dominance for the project and output (as the output should be progressive), and set the better image resize option.  I never seem to be able to get image quality as good as the original.  It looks like it's either a bad resize or a bad deinterlace (but I disabled deinterlace when speed is less than 100%).  I get stairsteps on angled lines and the image is kinda blurry.  It is nowhere near as good as the original.  Ideas?

Premiere 6.5 and lower have crap resizing. It won't look good no matter what. Premiere Pro finally added a halfway decent (bilinear) resizing algorithm.

use Photozoom Pro - it's resizing can't be beat, even beats Photoshop when it comes to resizing.  I use it to batch resize a SD res tiff sequence to 1080p into Avid.  Photozoom Pro uses S-Spline resizing which looks totally pimp.

Sorry to drag this up again.  I tried Premiere Pro.  The resize it better, but now, with some images, parts when played look almost grainy/noisy.  I can post a short vid if that would help.

Perhaps the noise is due to compression with a lossy codec? Does it look noisy if you export uncompressed?

I'm using huffyuv, so it's barely lossy.  I'll try it with huffyuv set on lossless.

It is NOT the codec, it's a resize issue.  Some of the noise looks like moire patterns, which makes me think it's a resize issue.

Here is an uncompressed cropped section to give you an idea (lt;200k).  what.avi