Helmet cam help

[Rolyratman]

Hi Guy's, new to this section of the forum and was wondering if anyone could help me out.

I have a Contour roam camera that I am really happy with to use for cycling/motorcycling. The problem is that when I view the footage the quality is good but when I try to edit it in Premier elements 12 and save I loose a lot of quality and it ends up looking like phone footage.

Now I assume it's loosing quality during rendering and the way it compresses the files, I tried searching & googling and to be honest it's all a bit over my head at the moment

I see plenty of footage on youtube etc using this exact camera and the quality they have always seems good.

Just wonder if anyone else had this issue with helmet cameras and if you had any advice.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Phil Young]

cheek the bitrate of your output - try outputting at 15mb/s and see if that helps.

Sounds like it's being compressed upon output to me.

 

[Rolyratman]

Cheers buddy, that sorted the issue

 

[4wd]

With my Drift ghost and using adobe premier I find I can go down to 8 or even 5 without losing too much - and the file size can be around half using 15.
This makes a big difference if youtubing it especially on ADSL with 375kb up