Quality of movies in Keynote TERRIBLE compared to QT

I have a movie file exported from FCP with no additional compression, a DV file, and I can play it full screeen on my 933 mHz iBook G4 and it looks fantastic, plays smoothly. The same file, when played as part of a Keynote presentation, shows fuzzy and pixelated text, especially white text on black background, poorer quality throughout, and sometimes stutters.
I know playing movies at high quality can be tricky, but why would Apple allow Keynote to be disabled so when they obviously have QT nailed?
It's frustrating to have a project that looks great in QT show so poorly when played through Keynote, when I need to present it this way.
Any thoughts?
Thansk,
kerry cox

well, this is just a guess, but when you run in the QT player at full screen, it's most likely switching your screen res into 640x480 when you do it. That means though the screen might be a little soft, the movie is not scaling at all (though it is being squished to look right at 640x480, as it's native res is 720x480)
Now switch to Keynote, and you're most likely running a 1024x768 slide show. You probably put the movie on a slide and scaled it to fit the slide. You run the show, and now it's running at 1024x768 with a 720x480 movie SCALED up to fill that. BIG DIFFERENCE.
There may be another reason, but this seems the most obvious to me.

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