Imovie videos have poor resolution online

I have noticed that videos that I have created in imovie have good resolution in imovie but when saved as a QT file and uploaded to vimeo or youtube, the resolution is poor. I have saved as both web streaming and full quality, both ended up blurry. Is there something I am not doing right?

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