Flash to quicktime to iMovie...

I'm working on a slideshow of a trip to Ghana that some students took. I thought it would be cool to stick an Indiana Jones style map sequence in. I did the sequence in Flash MX and exported it to Quicktime. No problems there -- looks great. I'm doing the slideshow portion of the project in iPhoto. I export the slideshow (also into quicktime), and open it with iMovie. I've done it lots of times before, and I've always been happy with the results. I use iMovie because I'm able to use more than one song. We're talking close to 800 slides here. I've done this several times in the past with smaller projects, but still longer than the one song iPhoto allows (15-20 min). The problem I'm having now is that when I imort the quicktime file of my map sequence into iMovie, it becomes very pixalated. I've tried changing the aspect ratio, but still had the same effect. Does anyone have an idea how I can do this? I've done similar things in the past, and this is starting to drive me nuts!

as far as I know, Flash uses vector grafix, but video is pixel grafix...
video is 720x480, so it can, due to standards, not be as "crisp" as a Flash on a computer's monitor...
I've done a Flash>>video conversion with QTpro once or twice... gave up, never looked acceptable (my standards...).
It is better to do the anims in designated pixel apps as Photoshop, Carrara, Cinema4D, use video-apps with keyframe ability as FinalCutExpress or use cute plug-ins as this one:
Geethree's Travel Log
besides, one of my silly workarounds:
make a mix of your music in Garageband/Audacity/audio edit app of designated length, use THAT in iPhoto...

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