IMovie HD6, difference in format choices

When starting a new project, I have read that I should choose a HD format in order to retain the original sharpness of imported digital images. What is the difference in quality between the formats HDV 720p and HDV1080i?
Also, I notice that when I add a Ken Burns effect, the image becomes sharper and brighter. Why is that?
Thank you for your help.

mishmumken
Your suggestion was fantastic. Thank you.
My problem was sort of the inversion. I wanted to import some clips that are 16:9, (640x272 to be specific).But of course, iMovie then displays them with black borders on top and bottom.
What really mysiyfied me was, I used QT pro to change the properties [scaled size 640x272 to 640x480, unchecking preserve aspect ratio] Then, on saving as a self contained movie, slightly different name, it appeared to have worked. The new QT movie played as 4:3 with no distortion and audio intact. I was delighted. Then I imported it into my iMovie project and...it came in as 16:9. I'm still stumped by this but no matter because I tried your suggestion - opening the Package Contents and dragging my clip into the Media folder -and that newly saved 4:3 version plays perfectlly along with existing clips on my iMovie timeline - as 4:3.
*I can't figure out Anamorphicizer. I downloaded both Anamorphicizer.app and Inverse-Anamorphicizer. I followed the link to the tutorial on it. All it does is some fast visual stuff and create a new file that is exactly the same as the one I tried to change. I tried it all kinds of ways but cannot figure out what it is doing or how to get it to do what I want.
*Someone else wrote - you can do what Anamorphicizer does in QT Pro. But no explanation as to how.
*I also found that MPEG Streamclip can do the conversion.
Bottom line, your suggestion is best. Thanks
noodle--head ...de... LighT...ed

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