Expoting a Keynote file into iMovie

I am trying to find anyway to import any quicktime file into iMovie and have this look good. I have tried all different compressions and still no luck. I am trying to export a Keynote presentation out to a quicktime file and then send to iMovie to mix with audio.
Does anyone have any idea how to accomplish this with iMovie or any other tool?

Thanks for the reply. Actually my end target is to out to a DVD and\or a quicktime file. I am trying to build a tutorial using Keynote and an Apple Script called http://automator.us/self-prezo/.
I had eveything working perfectly with a text to speech component...Perfect for training, however when I went to record the presentation using Snapz Pro, this would not work. I can record the audio but not the video.
So my next thought was to export the actual Keynote presentation and import this into iMovie, and then mix with Audio. Problem is when I bring in the Keynote quicktime file into iMovie, it looks terrible as you know.
Hopefully this gives you a better idea of what I am really trying to accomplish.
Thanks for your help!

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2655
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2936
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To get the keynote presentation into an iDVD slideshow that you can advance slide by slide with a DVD player remove you need to convert each Keynote slide to a jpg file. To to this go to the view all slide window, select all of the slides and type Command+P to start a print job.
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To check the encoding mount the disk image and launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding was good.
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As far as having no menu you must have a menu to fall back into once the presentation has finished. If you want just a black screen use one of the old themes like Brushed Metal, Burlap, Sage or Graphite and put a blank, black image file in as the background. You will have to have a button or text button in the menu so choose text and set the text to black if you want a fully blank menu. Be sure to set the highlight color for the text button to black also.
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I am trying to find anyway to import any quicktime file into iMovie and have this look good. I have tried all different compressions and still no luck. I am trying to export a Keynote presentation out to a quicktime file and then send to iMovie to mix with audio.
Does anyone have any idea how to accomplish this with iMovie or any other tool?

iM is a DV-editor, meant to import lossless via firewire from miniDV device by using the same codec, 'dv' ...
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OK RealTime Inspector: Dimensions of my clips - as I don't know which bit this is I will list everything under Inspector, including Format:
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