Image quailty

Hi,
iMac 24 2.33, 256 vram OS X.4.10 iMovie HD
I have iShowU to record the screen; I am creating a user help video for some software. I have tried several codecs in iShowU , and the output (as .mov) all look fine when played in QuickTime.
When these files are added into iMovie HD, the display quality is poor. What was crisp screen text is fuzzy, no matter what window size I drag the iMovie window to. The output using export to QuickTime using High Quality seems even worse. Certainly not good enough to distribute. I woudl have expected faithful reproduction of the screen capture (as the output from iShowU)
What am I missing?
regards
Chris

for what you are making and why you are using it and where you will be showing it....do what Kirk suggests. QuickTime will give you what you need.
and...P.S... personally, I would NOT have used any compression whatsoever when exporting it from iShowU. I don't think you would need to compress a single anything if you are showing it on the computer. Most every computer nowadays has enough memory to run almost anything on it, so why the compression for a computer run QT movie? But since you already did, that is enough. No more.
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