Howdy
. first of all we need to know three things:
1) what size picture your Video is -- 768 X 576 .. 704 X 396 .. 1920 X 1080p
2) what the Frames Per Second rate is -- 24fps .. 60fps .. 85fps .. 120fps
. and then "TA-DA" what your Source you used to get the footage:
3) was it DVD .. Blue Ray .. FLV .. MP4 .. MKv .. MPG .. RMVB .. .. ..
. second of all we need to know how you cleaned the video!
a) deinterlace
b) cropped
c) resized its to at least X4 on Hor & Ver "BiCubic"
d) blur
e) resized it "BiLinear" to the size you want to present it -- 1600 X 4 .. 18 X 9000
f) temporal smoother ( 2 or 3 should be good enough )
g) .. on to the Codec .. .. ...
-- any time your video will not "compress" means that your Video is Dirty ( washed-out )
which usually means it has traces of a "former compression scheme" still embedded in it.
. This can be solved by "cleaning" your video .. well, normally it can be solved by cleaning it!
if you can tell us what you've done, chances are we can help you from there
