Exporting: Dark areas look terrible. Solutions?

Hi all,
I'm shooting 1080p video with a Canon 60D and trying to put together some nice little films with iMovie 11. Unfortunately, on export, the dark areas always come out looking absolutely awful. They're pixelated and they almost seem to glimmer. It looks terrible. Blacks are obviously the worst but other darker shades suffer from the same problem. Don't notice it at all in bright shots.
Does anyone know of an export setting to fix this? If iMovie 11 is incapable of exporting videos with nice looking dark areas, what software should I consider? It really kind of bothers me.
Cheers!

im06, fce or fcp will output better image quality - in that order, PC too.
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