mherrcat

NCH Support suggested adjusting the encoding "Quality" setting to its highest level. This does not help. At low settings the image just looks like it is low resolution. At high settings the image quality looks like it is high resolution but there is overall macro blocking and grey color. In other words, low quality settings gets rid of the macro blocking and grey color, but the image is so degraded it is unusable. At high quality settings the image quality is good, but the macro blocking makes it unusable. I know Video Pad is supposed to be a simplified editing tool, but at least it should yield usable results...

Well the problem is, there are no effects or transitions applied to the video clip; it is a single 30-second MPEG4 video clip: H.264, 480x270, AAC, Stereo, 44.1kHz, 29.97fps, 9.15MB, 1.87mbps. I will try to insert some images of the problem:

I have been having the same problem for some time now. If I save the video as a .mp4 file or a .mov file it has the pixelation and grey areas you describe when it is played in the Quicktime player. If I play it in the Windows Media Player it looks OK. I noticed in Quicktime when I open the Quicktime Movie Inspector it shows the frame rate as 29.80 rather than 29.97. Maybe that has something to do with it? My version is also 2.41 Would really like a solution to this as it is very annoying...