Beginner Question - How do I amke frames size 320x240 ?

I am trying to make a student project using QT movies which are 320 x 240 pixels.
I want to string them together with some edits, titles and text but not change their size. Then save them back to a Quicktime movie the same size.
But when I drag 2 movies each about 15mb into iMovie they are turning into a huge file over 1.1Gb. I think they are being "upsized" to HD. Is that right?
How do I stop that? It is way to big for my hard drive space and I have only just started. I will also have to make the final file small enough to take on a flash drive to school.
Am I using the wrong program for this? If so what should I use?
Thanks for any help.
Patrick (Peter's my Dad)

Hi Peter,
I'm a father too, so I appreciate your "joined forces"... ;-))
.. but, where to begin?
he doesn't have a lot of time
before publishing a book, you have to learn reading & writing...-
you don't learn the basics of editing and the many feature of apps as iM, nor QTpro on the fly...
esp. No 5) on your list, How do you add controls, buttons, interactivity etc? lets me stumble..
* QTpro is a tool with some "basic" editing skills. And a mighty converter.
* iMovie is an elaborated editing tool for TV...
* "interactivity" is a feature of socalled slideshow makers as Keynote, Powerpoint...
you have to decide, which tool to use, depending on your goal you want to accomplish...
probably, you should forget all that video editing, and add his "micro clips" in some Keynote presentation?
and that We kept the size down so he can fit the project on his 256mb flash drive now is really hillarious (sorry, probably not approbiate english term, me no english speaker).. that adds the next, maybe the biggest hurdle to go, because video downsizing aka compressing is the next problem. and compressing makes e.g. titles/letters unreadable...
...... where to start?
do they have "Keynote" on the computers at school?
if NOT, you have to save the whole presentation as a "movie", you just need a playback app; but that will be for sure much, much bigger then a tiny flashstick...
do you need video+new audio+titles IN video+transitions IN video?
then you need an edit tool as iMovie...
convert the micro movies with QTpro into "dv stream", import to iM, follow advices found here:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/imovie/
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieAtAGlance.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson1.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson2.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson3.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson4.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson5.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson6.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson7.pdf
after editing, in the share/Quicktime/Expert settings dialog you can choose a compressor, which could crunch your video down to some size => loss of pic quality/readability of titles...
... and also because we do not have heaps of space free on my hard drive....
video contains 13Gb per hour. fullstop. no workaround to avoid that.
Plan B)
use Keynote
create charts/slides
add some videos here&then (not fullsize!), prepare them with QTpro before import to Keynote, e.g. edit them. place "titles" on Keynote slide, NOT in video; adding audio is ... very, very basic in Keynote...- (Keynote is a slideshow maker, no video editor....)
safe as Keynote pres (small file, needs Keynote on school computer) or as Quicktime movie (huge file, needs only QTplayer app)
What is a reasonable size for a presentation
best practise: the res of the computer/monitor/beamer your using for presentation... in most cases MORE then video...
How did they make those?
... not in a hurry…
sorry for being no help.... :-/

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