Exporting movie 2nd time has resulted in poor quality picture...

Hi,
I edited my holiday video in iMovie HD and exported as "Quicktime-Full Quality" and it made a large DV file which looks great.
i tinkered around with project in iMovie as needed to add/remove a few things and exported again on same setting as above, but it now looks pixellated and nowhere near as sharp as the first copy.
Any tips on whats gone wrong? the only other thing i did in between these steps is also export it to iDVD for later burning, if that helps.
Thanks.

Hi
YES - the only thing You did was using Share/Export to iDVD.
That's the problem. This is destructive ! ! !
iMovie rendering in this process gives a lousy result BUT ALSO HARMS THE ORIGINAL.
Medicine (but a bitter one).
• Re-import the photos to Your movie project (the old ones are damaged)
• Re-edit them to their propper places and duration
• NOW - When done. CLOSE iMovie
• Open iDVD and import Your movie project. Now iDVD will do the rendering and so much better.
Yours in Your Pain Bengt W

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