IMovie HD 6 rendering very low quality

I've tried exporting this movie several ways, from Full Quality to compressed and the video is poor. That is, during transitions, there is jumps in the brightness of the picture. And some of the rendered dissolves are simply not smooth, but "digitized" looking (like a bad YouTube video... actually, they're all bad).
Anyone know a secret in rendering that I'm missing? The movie is a combination of stills and some video.

I think your problem is that you are rendering in iMovie. Doing a search will turn up posts regarding this. Here's one http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7588332&#7588332
Don't export/render from iMovie. Just close it and import it from iDVD and let iDVD do the rendering.

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lolilolicon wrote:You mean jpeg artifacts? Just take screenshots in png format...
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