Windows 10: Adobe AE renders video at super low quality

Hello, I have a Acer Predator Helios 300 running 2018 adobe AE CC, but when i render the video and watch it, the quality is wayyyyy lower than the preview and the original video (shot on Panasonic fz300).

I have all the settings as high as possible but to no avail. I have tried lots of other "fixes" for this issue i found online but they didn't work.

I DO NOT want to use AME, as it is not free and somehow wasn't included in my copy of adobe AE.


PS:

My adobe AE is completely original...

Adobe AE renders video at super low quality

 

Windows run out of memory when rendering video

YES you read RIGHT, Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 have video editing features. I'm lazy to install Adobe Premier Pro, so I used Adobe Photoshop CC as of now. I don't know, I could easily render 1080x720 video in the past on my laptop. I even rendered a 15 minute
4k video in the past.

 

Windows run out of memory when rendering video

Did I read right, you are using Adobe Photoshop to make a video?

Are you sure it's not Adobe AfterEffects or Premier Pro . . .

Either way, you should probably reduce the resolution or bit-rate of the output video to reduce the amount of RAM required. Adobe Apps are particularly memory intensive, the only other option is to install more RAM, 8GB is not really enough for rendering
high quality video

 

Asha 501 Poor Video Rendering Quality / Blocky Video Artifacts

Hi folks, this is my first post here. I recently bought my Nokia Asha 501and I am pleased with the phone overall. But I am very disappointed with one major aspect of the phone - its video rendering quality, and iam referring specifically to the videos accesed
via the phones native video app, stored in the memory card and not online youtube streaming quality.



All videos seem to display a lot of blocky artifacts which are a lot more apparent when viewing a night scence and especially in dim light or at night in a dark room which spoils the overall viewing experience for me.



I understand that most hq MP4 files need conversion to the phones resolution and I have tried various free converters like any video converter, laewo converter, video to nokia phones converter, freemake converter, format factory etc. with the following settings




res - 320 x 240

container-mp4, 3gp

codec - MPEG4, XVID, DIVX, H264 ( H264 / x264 seem to produce slightly better quality but create lag/audio video sync issues during action scenes and still contain blocky artifacts so are not an option for uninterrupted viewing)

fps- 24 / 23.9 / Source

video bitrate - 300-600 kbps (500-600 seems allright but any higher still produces blocky artifacts)

audio settings same as source or aac and 96-128 kbps / 44000 Mhz



I have searched the forum for posts on this topic and what was usually suggested was to use the MPEG 4 codec instead of h264 which solves the problem of any lag but with all these settings the BLOCKY ARTIFACT problem still remains.



I would be grateful if any of the others with the ASHA 501 or other Asha phones could share if they are facing similar issues with videos and if this is a hardware or software problem/limitation and

if it would be better to buy a costlier phone like a lumia for good video rendering quality without blocky artifacts.

Thanks