Images appear pixelated in iMovie

My very high res pictures appear pixelated when I put them into iMovie HD 6.0.3 and then when subsequently put into iDVD. I am trying to make movies of my gardens (I am a landscape designer) so image quality is so important.
Thanks for any help!

Welcome to discussions!
iMovie: Titles or Still Pictures Appear Pixelated
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93002
There's a bug that will affect the image quality of slideshows. This thread describes it and shows workarounds:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=194962&tstart=0
Sue

Similar Messages

"Saved Optimized As" images appear pixelated - PS7.0

I am using Image Ready for PS7.0 to create a mouseover effect. Mouseover the smaller images and the picture in the middle changes to the large view of that picture. The starting pictures have no/little pixelation. However, after I finish slicing my graphic so I can make the mouseovers and then "save optimzed as" I upload the images and the html file and the images appear to have some increase pixelation.
I am accustomed to some increased pixelation when I make an animated graphic because it saves as one big heavy graphic. Is there a way to not have so much pixlation when I use Image Ready to create mouseovers/rollovers.
Thanks

Thanks for the response. I'm not sure if I understand. I have a 900 x 425 white background on to which I drag about 6, 600 x 420 size pictures into the center.
Then I make smaller pictures of each picture that I place on the right hand side to be used for the rollover effect.
I slice out along the edges of the big pictures so as not to add an excess white space around them and then I slice out the smaller pcitures as well so they became the rollover button.
The actual size of each pciture really does not become any bigger.
Thanks

Still Images Appear Pixelated When put into iMovie

I've been working on iMovie 9, and have just downloaded the new iMovie 10 (I think that's the newest one!) anyway, when working on the previous iMovie any still images I uploaded from iPhoto appeared in my projects just fine, even when I was adding the Ken Burns effect etc. I have just imported this project into the new iMovie and now all of my still photos appear crystal clear for a second and then become horrifically pixelated.
I am completely new to this and need to get this sorted as it's for a university project and I just can't get past these horrible pixely images, when they were fine on the previous iMovie! Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This should only be a temporary effect. Once the clips have been converted in to ProRes (a background process) they will be OK. If you do more editing the affected clips will again appear blurred until they are reprocessed.
(In iMovie 9 you had to wait for the clips to be transcoded when you imported them, before you could do any editing. In iMovie 10 you don't have to wait but the transcoding is done in the background.)
Geoff.

Images appear pixelated when brought into indesign/exported to pdf

When i drag a large image file into indesign it appears very pixelated and cannot figure out how to get the resolution better, it also looks even worse when i export the project to a pdf file. Does anyone know how to fix this?

It may be that the image is too large and ID is having a hard time deciding on what to do with the file. If you use the FIle>Place method and look in the Links panel, what are the Actual and Effective resolutions given for the file?

Images appear in reverse on iMovie '08 video screen.

How do I reverse the video images appearing on the iMovie preview screen?
When using my iSight camera to import video directly into iMovie '08, objects appear in reverse. i.e. When I wave my right hand in front of the camera, it appears on the left side of the screen.
When I'm not using iMovie, the images appear correctly on the iSight Screen.

Nope: optical illusion!
When you use your iSight camera with, for example, iChat or PhotoBooth, the images are reversed, so that you look the same to yourself as you do when you look in a mirror.
"..When I wave my right hand in front of the camera, it appears on the left side of the screen.." ..yes; that's how you look to other people in everyday life! ..When you look in a mirror and wave your right hand ..look carefully: your mirror image is waving his left hand!
When you look at your image as shot by your iSight, you'll see that if you shot yourself waving your right hand then it really is your right hand which is waving at you in iMovie!
The Apple people purposely switched the image in iChat AV (..and maybe other iSight applications..) so that you would look - to yourself - as you do when you look in a mirror, because that image looks familiar to you. (The image which is shown on someone else's screen when you're using iChat AV, however, shows you the correct way round, and not as reversed and seen in a mirror.)
So you're seeing yourself the correct way round in iMovie .,as everyone else sees you ..a bit unnerving at first!

No Video Images Appear In iMovie Import Window

My Vixia hv 30 mini DV is connected and recognized, and when I choose to import video manually, and hit the iMovie Import button, the video plays on the camera screen but not in the iMovie import window on my iMac. Nor does the counter move, although a large message in the iMovie window says "importing". The camera's counter in the upper right hand corner of the window counts off, but not the counter next to the controls at the bottom of the window. A file name is created in the Event Library, but there is nothing in the file when I click it.
I have tried importing segments of all sizes and lengths to see if there was an issue there but no video appears on the iMovie screen, and there is no message that thumbnails are being created.
I have watched tutorials online to see if I am missing something but I have found no answers. I was able to import a one-minute segment automatically a few days ago when I first got the camera, but now Automatic does not work. It begins to import, with no images appearing in the iMovie import window and no movement in the counter, then after a few seconds the "Importing" message changes to "Stopped"
In my 'Save To" window, it says I have "5.7GB free/25 min.)" on my Mac's HD.

I found that this was due to my tape having been recorded on an older DV camcorder rather than an HDV. You'd think either iMovie or the Canon Vixia would simply tell you that in plain language, rather than give you the kind of cryptic meaningless message that the camera displays.
If you have this problem, go into the camera menu and make sure the format —DV or HDV— matches the content on your tape.

When placing an image in InDesign, it appears pixelated. It is a 66mb file in a 6x9" document.

I am new to InDesign, as I've been creating all my documents for print in Acrobat as a PDF. When I am placing an image, it appears pixelated.

Hi,
This is an expected behavior, when you place an image in InDesign then it display the preview of the image however you this has no impact on the output unless the image placed is of low-resolution itself.
In order to have good resolution of images, you may switch to View > Display Performance > High Quality.
Thanks,
Manish Sharma

Some of thy images are appearing pixelated. any idea on how to get the issue fixed

some of my images in Aperture/iPhoto are appearing pixelated. any idea on how to get the issue fixed

Where can I find a copy of that? Like if I were to completely delete everything on my ipod, what would I do to go about restoring my songs?
Also I have a theory that one of the videos on my ipod is causing all the other stuff. However, I can't delete videos off my ipod (see https://discussions.apple.com/message/20313736?ac_cid=tw123456#20313736). Is there any way i can get the music from the backup but not the videos?

Scanned images appear in iPhoto but not in iMovie

Hi I’ve seen similar problems posted here but no resolution. Here is the issue. We have a lot of images that have been scanned into iPhoto with an HP all-in-one. They all are jpeg and all show up nice in iPhoto and move to iPhoto slide shows fine. However, none of the scanned images appear in iMovie. If I go to the HP folder they are initially scanned into, then open, and save as a TIFF, then move to iPhoto I can then see the image in iMovie. Is there another (less time consuming) way to do this? Could this an HP problem or is it iMovie (since iPhoto works fine).

I had this exact same issue, and for me the problem was that although the files were jpegs, when I scanned them in, they were missing the actual .jpg as a part of the file name extension. I went into the original files and added the .jpg extension and viola, they all appeared perfectly in iMovie. Test this on a few photos and see if it fixes your problem?

Images on my iPhone 5 are appearing pixelated in apps like pinterest and instagram. How can I fix this?

Recently images on my iPhone 5 have begun appearing pixelated in multiple apps, exlcuding facebook. I've tried turning my phone on and off and restarting the apps. Nothing has resolved the issue. Suggestions?

If Apple replaced the battery, contact them to check the phone, the battery replacement is covered by a warranty.
iPhone - Contact Support - Apple Support

I need some help resizing my images on PS6. I am using a mac and have been trying to resize with same resolution and constaining proportions but for some reaseon the smaller resized image appears pizelated.

I need some help resizing my images on PS6. I am using a mac and have been trying to resize with same resolution and constaining proportions but for some reaseon the smaller resized image appears pizelated. Heres an image of before and after. The first image I use is a JPG 72dpi 1500px x1500px and I want to downsize it to 600x600px same res, but it keeps pixelating, this has never happened before. Any suggestions, thoughts?
thanks!

I wouldn't say pixelated; more like blurry.
Like ConnectedCreative said, what steps are you using? Are you using "bicubic sharper" when resizing down?

Why does my Indesign program appear pixelated every time I open it?

I have recently downloaded the Creative Suit 6 but every time I have tried to open Indesign it appears pixelated making it hard to use. Does anyone have an explination and/or solution to this problem?

Are you referring to the resolution of placed images? InDesign has different levels of preview quality that you can select to match the speed of your machine. The default level is "Typical," which is a low resolution image preview that draws quickly but looks horrid. Any reasonably modern machine should be able to handle the High Quality Display setting without choking on most files, and you can change it from the the View menu by choosing View > Display Performance > High Quality Display, but it's probably even better to open the application prefernces and change the default setting. You can choose to leave object level dispaly performance enabled which will allow you to set the preview individually for very large images that cause a delay while working.

Pdfs and screenshots opened in Photoshop are appearing pixelated, or not displaying at all.

Hi. I'm on a new iMac system. (iMac 27" retina - Yosemite OS X 10.10).
Whenever I take a screenshot and open it up in Photoshop by using File/Open and locating the screenshot, it is appearing pixelated.
The same thing is occurring when I try to open a pdf, or the pdf doesn't appear at all.
Here is a saved photoshop file (jpg) of how a screenshot is appearing in Photoshop. I just took a screenshot of this page for the purposes of this exercise. Other screenshots appear even more pixelated.
The only reason I am opening screenshots in Photoshop is to crop them before posting anywhere or sending to anyone.
I'm selecting 'use the embedded profile (instead of the working space).
I'd attach the image of how a pdf is appearing in Photoshop but it is not displaying anything at the moment. A file does open to the right shape/size of the pdf but it appears blank.
I'm using File/Open locating the pdf file, I click OPEN, the specs I put in are: 300dpi, Select: Page1, Anti-aliased is ticked, Crop to Bounding Box, width: 19.8cm, height 8.8cm, contain proportions is ticked, 300dpi per inch, fit page, Bid depth: 8 bit, CMYK, Thumbnail size: Fit Page.
Which is everything I used to do on my old Mac, and which worked perfectly, but not working now. Wondering if it's a bug or if I'm missing something in Photoshop, due to it being an upgraded Photoshop version (CC2014).
This is how the pdf file of an advertisement I need to insert into a brochure appears in photoshop. If I open it again, it will again render differently.
Btw, the screenshot or the pdf file previews fine when about to open it (in the Finder/folder).

Correction for above: 'Bit depth' not ' Bid depth'

Why does my high res photoshop image appear blurry when placed in InDesign and Exported as PDF?

Hi there,
I have a problem I've been trying to solve for days but just can't find the answer anywhere on the internet.
I have a large, good quality photoshop file (2268 x 979 pixels, resolution 300 pixels per inch). When I place it into InDesign, the image appears OK (I've changed my display settings to HIGH) - I then resize it in InDesign to 10% and the file still looks great! Then, when I export it as PDF (high quality print) it looks blurry.
Does anybody know why? The strangest thing is, I've placed other photoshop images in the same InDesign file and they look crystal clear. It is just this one I am having trouble with. I've saved it in the same folder as the other pictures, I've tried placing it as psd. , jpg. , photoshop pdf, png. everything...
The image looks great in both photoshop and indesign, only when exported as pdf it looks awful.
Any help will be greatly appreciated,
Many thanks in advance!
Weronika

It's probably the extreme reduction -- you're throwing away 90% of the image pixels and interpolating, and then using jpeg compression on top.

I downloaded a vector file from Shutterstock. How do I edit the text in Photoshop? If i enlarge the image- the pixels are awful and the image is distorted.

i downloaded a vector file from Shutterstock. How do I edit the text in Photoshop? If i enlarge the image- the pixels are awful and the image is distorted.

jessicae28493569 wrote:
i downloaded a vector file from Shutterstock. How do I edit the text in Photoshop? If i enlarge the image- the pixels are awful and the image is distorted.
What is the file format of the vector you downloaded? Custom Shapes have a .PSP extension, and are placed according to this table.
Preference filenames and locations in Photoshop CC
They will then be loadable from the Custom Shapes drop down — click on the cog icon > Load shape > Find your downloaded vector.
Once placed in the image, it will appear as a Shape layer, and can be edited with the Path, and Direct Selection tools (black and white arrows on the toolbar)

Images appear pixelated in iMovie

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for