Color dull after importing to iMovie & then iDVD

i am doing a DVD project with my own sony DV camera but also the majority with a friends professional DV cam which features much biger lens, audio in, a good stereo mic on top of camera etc. when i played back the clips from the camera thru TV they looked great but when i imported them via DV/firewire lead in iMOVIE the color is dull & lifeless. is there a way round this. i wondered if it was because i used DV out rather than AV out to import to my mac.
can you help
thanks

i am having the same issue. tried "adjust colors" in the video FX and the preview looked great, but application of the effect left the clip unchanged.
did you get any help from another source (since this seems to be without responses)?

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