Darkness movie after going to iMovie

Why a specific movie in iMovie is darker than in iTunes or Quicktime ? I imported to edit it but iMovie changed the video settings to a darker movie. If I change the video settings manually I cannot find a way of having the same result that I see in iTunes or Quicktime

No solution.

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Matt,
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What's more, it didn't respond to simple start or stop commands.
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As for Garage band. That was a dismal failure. I'll stick with creating tracks separately and then adding it to the movie project without GB's scoring feature. It's a nice idea but it's not working with my G4.
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Hello Jackie! (My brother lives in Brussels!)
You may find these helpful:
iMovie tutorials:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie
and also this:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/imovie_09_stone.html
A good guide to iDVD 7 can be found here:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/idvd_07_stone.html
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laura4life
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[rant]
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