[DM-MUG] iMovie quality help! Please.

[kcrouch]

My final destination is to be iDVD. Pictures are beautiful in iMovie. It's just that I have to import old hand written items 
. I tried Brian's suggestion for changing the size of the image before importing it into iMovie. That didn't seem to 
work. I then tried exporting the movie using the expert settings and set everything to the best quality possible. That 
seemed to work.

Thanks for all of the help.

Kendall

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> From: "Bryan Baker" <ka_klick@mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [DM-MUG] iMovie quality help! Please.
> Sent: 12 May 2005 17:57:16
>
>  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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