[RoofusPennymore]

I have some AVI files that are 640x480 and were created on a PC. I can view them in quicktime and they look like they did when they were made. However when I import them into iMovie they seem to get antialiased. And dont look so good.

[Uncle Skeleton]

iMovie (and Quicktime) only show a preview of DV content. you can't see the results until you export (to tape or to quicktime)

edit: you can't see the FINAL results. obviously you can see the effects applied right away

PS. in Quicktime Pro you can get a better (and slower) picture in the High Quality section of the Movie Properties

[RoofusPennymore]

Well sure. But is there a way to prevent it from antialiasing it?

[Boondoggle]

I've got the same problem, but my .mov files I created myself in QuickTime. iMovie is downgrading the quality significantly. They are full 640x480, look great in QTplayer, but look aweful when imported to iMovie and subseqently back to Quicktime or to iDVD.

There has got to be a way to avoid this.

[Powaqqatsi]

I think you mean aliasing not antialiasing.

It's a problem with iMovie, it really sucks because for me, it interferes with the work I do. So I use FCE now . There is no way to avoid this.

[Boondoggle]

Is it possible that this is just a consequence of iMovie using only the DV format?

I don't know much about this but it seems that the DV format is lower quality than raw 640x480.

The movies I'm importing are Poser 4 movies that I save without compression at all. These look great in QtPlayer.

If I save them from Poser in DV format, they look about as bad as they do when the uncompressed files are imported into iMovie, which leads me to believe that the DV format is "lossy".

Is this the problem? Does FCE handle imports differently?

[OwlBoy]

Would it be because DV is 720x480, and you are scaleing up from 640x480?

-Owl