HORRIBLE QUALITY

I am having some problems with iMovie and I am wondering if you could give me some advice. I am trying to screen-cast some Google Earth shots and then add microphone audio and music. Ideally, I would like to be able to submit the video to online video sites such as YouTube and Google Video. I would also like to be able to upload to the videos to a online file sharing host, so it could be downloaded in a reasonable time. In either case the video has to be very quality because the Google Earth shots are very detailed.
So far I haved tried Snap Pro Z (demo) for screencasting. It creates a .mov at 640 X 480 at 30 framrate, compression style MPEG-4 and with the best quality compressor.
I then converted it with MPEG Streamclip to .mp4. The details include MPEG4 compressor with 100% quality. The framsize I am using is 640 x 480 (4:3), deinterlaced.
Up until this point it looks very good and has lost barely any quality.
Then I try import it into iMovie. It plays fine and my audio needs are perfectly met in the program. However, when I try to share the video (having tried nearly every option) it looks horrible!
I could of dubbed the audio in with Snap Pro Z but the audio doesn't even compare to what I can do with iMovie.
Can you make any suggestions on how I can get the video in perfect quality (and audio) for Google Video and online download/sharing?
Obviously I don't want the size to be too big, some files I have created have been 1.5mb+.
By the way the Google Video recommends the following for optimal quality:
MPEG4 (mp3 or mp4 audio) at 2 mbps
MPEG2 (mp3 or mp4 audio) at 5 mbps
30 frames per second
640x480 resolution
4:3 frame
de-interlace
Thank you so much.
Luke
[email protected]

Hi Luke
Lots of moving around Your material. My guess is that it's not doing the quality
better but rather worse.
AND the way to go from iMovie to iDVD - render function destructive.
Try another way.
a) Close iMovie
b) find the project icon/folder
c) Ctrl-click on it and Show package.
d) in this there are a folder -> Shared Movies -> iDVD
e) in this there is a QT movie nnnnnnn.mov
- You can test this with QT-player to see that it is OK -
START A NEW iDVD project - so that old material will not interfere.
f) drop this into an open theme in iDVD (just inside the edge of the
window) and save it as a desktop image
(if iDVD prior HD/5 You have to add a hack to make this possibly
named HPfurz and install it)
Test this with Apple DVD-player - OK then burn it with iDVD
or Toast if You have and don’t want to re-code the movie.
Yours Bengt W

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