[Chucktr]

I've been trying to create a series of static slides (no Ken Burns effects) that fade up and out in a movie I'm doing. All type must be the same size. Can't figure out how to do it in iMovie.

So I tried creating jpeg files in Quark, exporting as PDFs and converting into jpegs and it worked! Clean crisp type, white on black background.

Problem is when these jpegs are imported into iMovie the type seems to degrade a lot (gets fuzzy).

Advice, please!

12" Powerbook OS 10.5.8

[jmiddel]

I don't know Quark, but in many such apps you can directly save to .jpg, from the Save As menu. That might eliminate one step. I know it looks good on the desktop, but very step added can lead to all sorts of minor yet fatal degradations.

[Chucktr]

Originally Posted by jmiddel 

I don't know Quark, but in many such apps you can directly save to .jpg, from the Save As menu. That might eliminate one step. I know it looks good on the desktop, but very step added can lead to all sorts of minor yet fatal degradations.

Quark is a publishing tool (like Adobe inDesign) that allows you to create documents with any combination of graphics and typography. The PDFs it generates are crystal clear, so I took your advice and just imported the PDFs into iMovie. Better, but there still appears to be some degradation. So, does iMovie itself degrade on import?

Thanks!

[jmiddel]

In InDesign, under FILE>EXPORT you can save the file as a jpeg. Maybe Quark has a similar option, and maybe iMovie will be kinder to a visual file format than to a more generic/universal one.