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iMovie problems
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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I am using a ibook 500 w/ 320 megs ram and osX. I tried inporting video today from my cannon dv. No problems.
Now, if I watch it, export it to QT or virtually anything else, the video quality is CRAP! It looks horribly pixalated and I need to know if there is a setting I should change in it or something. Anyhow, thanks!
Kent
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SO I guess I thought that it would look at least as good as the original. Is my ibook too slow?
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The speed of your ibook probably isnt the factor here. The settings in the export window are where you should concentrate. If you click on the expert settings you can tinker with each aspect (to a degree). The magic combination has eluded me thus far (unless HD space isnt a factor). If you are interested in extra software to do the trick I hear Sorenson Squeeze produces good stuff as does Cleaner5 (even if slow).
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no way it'll look as good as the original, unless you go for uncompressed, full-quality DV export (basically the raw DV data). This makes for HUGE files, but hey, the quality is there. 
You could burn to VCD and get decent quality, or find some way to encoded like DVD (mpeg-2) or perhaps the newest standar (mpeg-4). however, these aren't available in iMovie.
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strange cause when I remember watching the "demo" movie, it look really good in full screen (as a preview). When i watch mine it looks like I downloaded it off the web. (maybe worse!) If I were to send it back to the camera instead of saving it as a QT file, would it be better?
thanks!
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Sending back to the camera will give you a replica of what you started with. No Loss.
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Originally posted by SeSawaya
Now, if I watch it, export it to QT or virtually anything else, the video quality is CRAP! It looks horribly pixalated and I need to know if there is a setting I should change in it or something.
It's kind of hard to help if you don't list the compression specs - codec, data/frame rate, key frames, etc. But read the following post. It might be of help.
http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...ghlight=iMovie
Good Luck.
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