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So many postings of poor quality from iMovie 09. There are claims of "pixelization," "noise" during motion, interlace artifacts, severe loss of detail, etc. But, are these reports really valid?
And, how true are the assumption that FCE or FCP will not have any such problems. Always the belief that FCE/FCP movies will be really so much better.
Simple test using more demanding video -- upload two exports that have similar contrast because the more contrast the sharper video looks. (The iMovie 09 version was processed as described in my eBook.)
If you are sure FCP, FCE, and iMovie 06 movies look better -- then you should easily be able to tell which movie (Z1 or Z2) was edited by which application. And, even if you can see a difference, which you may, is it SO much better? And, do you see any of the commonly reported defects of iMovie video?
Source clips are 1920x1080i60 MPEG-2. They were not converted to AIC so they are first generation.
Imported by iMovie. An XML export was used to FCP. So the exact same source clips were used by both applications.
Exports from both applications at 1080i60 were made using AIC. Then MPEGStreamclip deinterlaced both to 720p30 H.264 (x264 codec) at 6.4Mbps before uploading. These movies are third generation. (You can download these.) What you'll watch is fourth generation 720p30 Flash.
What about movie Z3? A different process was used. Please leave a comment on how you think it looks compared to Z1 and Z2.
Remember: Motion smoothness is dependent on your internet speed!
Go to:
http://exposureroom.com/
Search for DVC.
Please leave your guesses as Comments.

I can't shoot HDV (unless with my current camera). If i buy another camera, it will be USB. I'm the macbook user. I knew exactly what i was buying also. Surprising how many users get the macbook home and try to plug firewire into the USB and wonder why it doesn't work. How does this happen? I paid more for the fully loaded macbook than a standard macbook pro. I wanted something very portable.
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