Import/optimize question

I'm importing videos shot with my digital camera which takes great HD movies. I notice when I import them into iMovie 11, some of them will come out more grainy than the original. I'm selecting the Optimize video checkbox when importing. Is this what's causing the problem? I don't quite understand what the Optimize function is all about. I see some iMovies which other have made that are just crystal clear but a few of my clips, especially ones which are a bit darker, come out in a lower quality once they've been imported. Not sure of the proper way to do this. Any ideas/suggestions? Should I always be optimizing my video imports and if so, how do I get them to be as crystal clear as the originals? The movies my camera takes are 30fps Motion JPEG. They are 1280 x 720 HD and the QT info panel says:
Photo - JPEG, 1280 x 720, Millions
Linear PCM, 16 bit big-endian signed integer, 2 channels, 16000 Hz

Optimize usually indicates that iMovie is translating the videos into the Apple Intermediate Codec format so that iMovie can easily preview and edit the video accurately down to the 1/30th of a second video frame. If you don't want iMovie to do that, you can import it not optimized and Full Size as well just to force iMovie to touch the video a little less as compared to Large Size and Optimized. Might try just doing a test with one batch of Events coming in (don't erase the clips off the camera) then re-import with the Full Size, unoptimized settings and see if you can tell a difference between the two settings. Full Size, unoptimized is going to take up a lot of Hard Drive space so be aware there's no free lunch when choosing those settings (Full Size = Large File sizes)

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