Exported clip quality degraded

In order to improve the smoothness of the video motion I edit individual frames (eliminating repeat frames) ending up with a long string of short clips which I want to export as a single clip and import again.
My problem is that the imported combined clip quality is degraded compared to the original. I tried expert settings with *no compression*, but the clip was still of lower quality than the original.
The export size (720X480) and FR was set the same as original.
Any suggestions how to export without degrading?

Andrew, I read your post several time and have no idea what you are trying to do. This is iMovie HD6 forum, are you in the right forum ?
I have worked with iMovie 4 & 6 for several years, and have never had a need or a reason to do what you speak of. I use a tape based video camera. You should see no loss in image quality if you export back to tape. I have no experience with other formats, but I suspect that with formats other than tape, you would compress every time you save, resulting in some loss of resolution.
If you see "jitters" when you pan, I suspect that you would be using a camera with a digital stabilizer, in which case you should switch such stabilizer off when you pan.
jc

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