IMovie - "Convert Entire Clip" reduced clip's frame rate

Hi,
I was making a video using iMovie.
I wanted to speed up or slow down some clips, so I clicked the "Convert the Entire Clip" button.
After the clips were converted, I noticed that the frame rate of my clips was reduced. It looked lagging in most part of the clips. The original format of the clips is mp4, iMovie converted them to .mov format
Is there a setting to improve/maintain the frame rate during the conversion?
Thanks.

Thanks to all who have responded,
I had planned to create short movie clips for emailing but wanted something quick and easy to do so.
It would be great if I could from iMovie select a clip and share to QT then email the results but it seems that each time I will have to work on the clip to prepare it for sharing. I dont want to go to that much trouble each time so I doubt I will use this means.
I dont understand why it is not easy to do so. Each time I try to open a QT clip in WMP it says it cant use the file. I had hoped it would convert the movie to MPV or better if QT would convert to something other than files most PCs wont open. There are now four PC users that cant open the file and one that can. 1 out of 5 is not too impressive.
By the way, I dont know what Sorenson is.
I create numerous iMovies but never use QT even though I keep buying Pro each system upgrade just in case.
Is there a quicker solution to sharing by email?
Harold

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