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DirectX
2007 August 14th, 23:28
Hi,

I'm new to these forums and editing in general. I purchased an HV20 and I'm amazed at the quality of this little camera. I took some test shots this past weekend and loaded them into iMovie. When I view it in iMovie the quality is amazing, but when I copy it to a DVD via iDVD the footage is just okay when viewed on a 42" plasma. I'm assuming it's because it's downconverted to SD on the DVD and I don't know if my friend has an HD TV or not. I then put the DVD into the computer and it actually looked better on the TV believe it or not. Since I've seen some great quality movies online in .mov format I decided to export to quicktime at "web" quality (full quality would have been over 2Gigs). The quality on QT was almost unwatchable and very compressed. Am I doing something wrong or am I limited with iMovie? I thought QT at least would give some great quality footage I could upload but that was the worst quality. I'm upgrading to FCP 2 in 2 months, will that make a big difference? BTW lots of great info in this forum and everyone seems willing to share their knowledge...even to a newbie like me.

Mark

Eugenia Loli-Queru
2007 August 14th, 23:57
What you are seeing is normal. Use iMovie HD '06 (don't even think of using '08) and the export using CUSTOM. There, you can set the right resolution and bitrate. The "web" quality is low, because it's supposed to go on web sites, so you must play around with the custom exporting option.

sp8ce07
2007 August 15th, 03:27
Mess around with the Apple Intermediate Codec