IMovie 08 takes twice as long to produce inferior output
I'm using a Sony HC42 miniDV camera. It records in wide screen format.
In iMovie 6 it takes 9 minutes to save a QuickTime movie of about 2-1/2 minues duration. In iMovie '08 it takes 18 minutes to save the same movie.
The QuickTime from iMovie 6 file is much better quality, perhaps because it uses the true resolution of the source material which is 869x480 pixels. iMovie 08 insists on converting the video capture to 960 x 540.
Samples of both can be seen here:
http://www.bmumford.com/tmp/imovie/
Bryan Mumford wrote:
I'm using a Sony HC42 miniDV camera. It records in wide screen format.
In iMovie 6 it takes 9 minutes to save a QuickTime movie of about 2-1/2 minues duration. In iMovie '08 it takes 18 minutes to save the same movie.
The QuickTime from iMovie 6 file is much better quality, perhaps because it uses the true resolution of the source material which is 869x480 pixels. iMovie 08 insists on converting the video capture to 960 x 540.
Samples of both can be seen here:
http://www.bmumford.com/tmp/imovie/
wow.. thanks for the comparison.
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