Clips Importing in Low Resolution

I've done some screen-capture tutorial movies which look fine as Quicktime .mov files (880x660) but look very blurry after importing into iMovie. I've never tried iMovie until now, but it seems all the preferences are set to best quality and I'm unable to determine what's causing the poor resolution.
I'm missing something.
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Perhaps your problem is in how you made the screen captures. I use Snapz Pro X and get good results - what did YOU use?
By the way, you must kep in mind that video (640x480) is low resolution by today's computer monitor terms (1280x1024 or higher). What are you trying to capture?
Edit: Also, keep in mind the the preview image shown in iMovie is NOT 'full quality' - it's just a preview of the content.
F Shippey

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DSLR
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DSLR [email protected]
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