Exporting FULL DV from iMovie '08.

Can't for the life of me find where to export my movie in full DV quality so that I can then put it on DVD for TV playback. iMovie '06 used to have a setting for Export to iDVD which is now gone...What am I missing.

Thanks for re-posting that interesting example, David.
I remember being baffled when I first saw that example, and still cannot explain how the results you see are so different from mine. I hope we can figure it out.
For the sake of readers, I'll say that David edits in the PAL video world while I edit in the NTSC world. Perhaps that makes a difference here, I don't know.
He also may be shooting 16:9 DV video while most of my tests are 4:3.
1. Here, all the DV source video exported by iMovie '08 to DV — or exported to any other video format — NEVER looks as sharp as your "good" picture, David. Here, the exported video is always fuzzier than the source video and there's nothing I do can make it sharp.
That is not true for you?
2. Here, setting the High Quality feature of the exported movie does not affect playback quality.
3. Using QT Pro's Save As command or Export command doesn't improve the quality either, no matter what High Quality setting I use. And the new movie is the same size as the original. (We should probably avoid drawing any conclusions about the movie size for there are both QuickTime bugs and Finder bugs that confuse the issue.)
To summarize, the export of DV material here is always fuzzier than the source material and there's nothing I can do to improve it.
Some thoughts:
1. Setting my QuickTime Player preference to always use High Quality also affects the display of the movie settings in the Video Settings window. Even though the movie has not been saved with the HQ setting turned ON, the window shows it as turned ON. This can be confusing. To avoid this, we can turn off the QuickTime Player preference.
2. The content of your sample photo suggests the movie was edited in iMovie 6. (iMovie '08 doesn't offer that title, if I recall.) Is it possible iMovie 6 is "contaminating" the results somehow?
3. What you describe is exactly what happens if a) my QuickTime preferences are not set to show High Quality; and b) the exported movie was exported by iMovie 6.
Any other clues what's going on?
Karl

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