Excel graphs in powerpoint into imovie

What is the best way to put excel graphs into imovie? I need to put 2 graphs together on one sheet, so I have aranged them in powerpoint, and saved the powerpoint as a JPEG, and as a powerpoint movie but when I import these into imovie, the quality is really bad, and the text is blury when its desplayed on a larger screen. Any ideas, on how to put a powerpoint into an imovie? Thanks!

iMovies goal is "projection" on TV - in PAL countries that has a screen resolution of 768x576 (.. and that is max, in real life it is less...)
second, a computer has no interlacing - that is a good trick for moving images on TV, but that "blurrs" any detailed content...
sooo....
you charts will be minimized & blurred. in case you used any serif-typo, the tiny lines will vanish/flirr.. that isn't iM fault, but due to TV standards....
I would:
use Excel to export directly into some pict format (tiff isn't bad, because no compression); I don't see any need to make an inbetween step in some slideshow app ... (???)
and I would "tune" in Excel the formats: not too much content, san-serif typo, no bright colors (as pure red), no 1pix lines etc....
best practise:
re-create new, "video compatible" charts in some pic maker (e.g. Photoshop) by using the correct settings from the beginning - you instantly see what you get...
don't forget: judge pic quality of iM projects only TV screen!
besides:
dpi is an internal-file-info just need for PRINTS... a 10x10pix picture is displayed as 10x10 pix on every computer's screen... independed of 72dpi, 120dpi, or 2400dpi... bigger dpi's make file size larger, but not better for monitor use....

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I’ve been through a lot of pain with IMovie for the last 6 months, and cracked it a couple of days ago. I therefore feel the need to write about my experiences.
I have lots of old footage on:-
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2. HI8 tapes
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5. Sony standard def hard disk camcorder files.
1. DV tape
This was a joy to import. OK, so I had to invest a small amount of cash to buy a new cheapie DV camcorder (as my old one broke years ago), but the import itself was easy. Just connect the camcorder, the import window appears, and away to go. Events are imported with the correct date and time, and it even creates a new event for different days imported.
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3. Sony mini-DVDs
I’ve been trying to crack this issue for months. Clips are imported in random order, even though they are shown in the correct order in the preview. Hopefully it will get sorted. See the following thread:-
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9404421&tstart=0
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5. Sony standard def hard disk camcorder files.
Now this is the biggie…..
I had about 1,000 MPEG2 files on my hard disk, that I’ve moved from my camcorder over the years. To my annoyance, when I switched from a PC to the Mac, I needed to buy the MPEG add-on to Quicktime. OK, so no big deal, but even then, all I could get was the video with no sound. After weeks of digging about, I found out that the reason there was no sound is because apparently Quicktime can’t handle MPEG files with AC3 dolby digital sound. As all of my files are recorded in this format, this was a major hurdle.
I then dug around and discovered that on the Sony CD that comes with the camcorder, there is a utility to down mix the AC3 audio to stereo. But it can only do one file at a time – no good for 1,000 files.
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But when doing an import into IMovie 09, the files are greyed out and cannot be selected. So back to the drawing board...
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I even worked out how to do this automatically using ‘a better finder renamer’.
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Being unhappy with this, I had a brain wave and decided to try something else. AppleMan1958 helpfully suggested putting the files into different folders “behind IMovie’s back”, something I was open to doing, but wanted to try something else first...
I resurrected my old camcorder from my attic, and filmed a few minutes of footage.
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I then noticed an ‘archive’ button within the import window, so decided to press it. It then copied the MPEG file from the camcorder onto the hard disk. But it did so in the structure of the original camcorder (i.e. it creates a series of specially named folders, just like on the camcorder).
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All 1,000 files were then accessible using the standard import function!!!!
(By the way – I’m sure people already know this information – and I’m in no way taking credit for any of it, as it’s probably been suggested by other people in the past).
I’ve now happily imported all of the files.
(Interestingly, a couple of times it said ‘Error!’ on importing some of the files. The third time I tried it, it worked. How random!!)
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Ofcourse now I’ve spent all this extra money, it’s time to dust off the old camcorder and use that for a few more years, until I pluck up the courage to go hi-def...
Hope you enjoyed reading – thought I’d share my experiences incase there are any newbies out there with similar issues. It’s annoying that Apple make it seem like childsplay to connect your new shiny camcorder to IMovie, but seem give little help in the more technical issues.
Now, if only they’ll fix the mini-DVD import bug too...!
Brad

Hi Brad,
when you use Streamclip to convert media, use the same name for the exported file (only with different extension). Then make a shell script calling
touch -r origFileName.mp2 newFileName.mov
This will copy the exact time and date from origFileName.mp2 to newFileName.mov
The script may look like this (save the file, give an exec permission to it and call it in the right directory):
#!/bin/bash
for i in `ls *.mp2`; do
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Have fun and cheers

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