[DM-MUG] iMovie quality help! Please.

[Bryan Baker]

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part of it may well be that you are reacting to the "preview" that 
iMovie gives you.
To save CPU cycles iMovie's preview is not exactly wysiwyg. Part of 
this has to do with the fact that TV's have oblong pixels.
Have you tried actually viewing it through to your destination? (using 
a fw camera or bridge to output to a TV?)
Also, remember a TV (even when working in DV) has much lower resolution 
- your target area is ~ 640x480 of usable viewing area for TV.
DV native res (consumer) is ~ 720X480 which is (I believe) what iMovie 
uses for 4:3 projects. Remember you WILL loose area to overscan.
If your final output destination isn't TV, you might try an export to 
QT movie to see if that looks any better.

here's a somewhat related article (using Keynote presentations in FCP):
http://www.keynoteuser.com/tips/finalcut.html

On May 12, 2005, at 12:32 PM, kcrouch wrote:
> I'm scanning images and then trying to import them into iMovie. The 
> images look great until iMovie (4.0.1). All of the
> quality is gone. They're crap. What am I doing wrong? I've adjusted 
> the size and scanned at different resolutions.
> Nothing is working. Give me some help.
>
> Kendall Crouch
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