Help please! quality problems converting HDMI movie clips into iMovie mp4

I am importing HDMI movie clips from a canon powershot SX50HS camera into iMovie and building them into a single MP4 intended for YouTube.
The movie clips appear clear as a bell individually in iPhoto whatever size I enlarge them to on the screen but are horrendously blurred in the MP4 movie- especially text.
Help!!!! What am I doing wrong????

Hi chrisluna123,
If you are not already doing so, you may want to try importing directly into iMovie from the camera. You may also want to test the "Analyze for stabilization after import” function on a shorter clip to see if that helps. You may find the following article helpful:
iMovie '11: Import video from your digital still camera or DSLR
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2148
Regards,
- Brenden

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