Importing Quality Issue

When I import movie files into iMovie 6 they don't go in at full quality, same in both Tiger and Leopard, same computer. Anyone know a fix to this?

Thank you for your quick response.
No I transferred the files from my Sony DCR-PC100E camcorder which is not a HD version, the video format is MiniDV. For the workflow, I transfer the video file via a firewire cable to iMovie. After I transferred it onto my Mac, I then move the video file into a new project and that's where the quality change happens. Because in the preview of your file the sharpness changes after moving it into a new project are right away visible.
If you need any additional info please let me know.

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When I import from my Sanyo Xacti HD700 using "Import from Camera..." the import quality has significant blocking / compression artifacts. However, if I copy the same file off the SD card from the camera and play it back in QTplayer it does not have this same blocking / compression artifacts.
The file is a .MP4 container using H.264 codec for video and AAC for audio. The resolution is 1280x720p and framerate 30fps.
After spending a significant portion of time messing around with iMovie 08 trying to get it to import without the quality loss I have discovered that "Import from Camera..." and "Import Movies..." have different behavior (in terms of video quality) on the SAME FILE.
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6) At this point you will also notice that the movie imported from camera will have a custom name like clip-2007-12-26 14;41;44.mov while the movie from "import movies" will have the same filename as it did on the camera i.e SANY0025.MP4.
7) Now open both files in QTplayer and arrange them side by side showing the same frame. You will see that the quality is much worse in the file from "Import from Camera".
Hypothesis:
My guess is that when you select "Import from Camera" it does some transcoding on these files that it doesn't do when you select "Import Movies". (Maybe Import from Camera always transcodes, whereas Import Movies checks to see if it needs to transcode or not?) I believe this because it takes significantly longer using the "Import from Camera" during which time it would appear to be performing some type of transformation on the movie. Also, because the file name in the folder is different.
I believe that either this transcoding is flawed or of poor quality which leads to the poor quality video when importing.
*Work around*:
Use "Import Movies..." instead of "Import from Camera..."
Note that I have not yet taken this through the export process to know how this will impact the final output.
Finally, for the skeptics, here is a screengrab of the two movies side by side in QTplayer on the same frame. The one on the left was imported with "Import from Camera" and the one on the right with "Import Movies". Look at the right side of the yellow playset and also at the hair. In motion it looks quite bad.
Thoughts?

Really? You don't see the difference?
Ok, well here is it blown up to 2X to make it more obvious:
and here it is blown up to 2X and with the contrast increased to make it even more apparent:
I perhaps didn't pick the best frame as an example, but it is very obvious in motion. If necessary I suppose I could post a small movie clip to show.
Message was edited by: Richard_

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I am a casual video editor and iMovie 08 had the perfect user experience / functionality for what I want to do.
However, the known video quality issue (throwing away interlaced scan lines) made the result unacceptable since I archive our family video on DVDs. I have been forced to use iMovie HD for that reason. I have tried tricks such as converting the original DV files to AIF and deinterlace prior to import into iMovie08 but that did not seem to work either.
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MESSAGE TO APPLE IF YOU ARE LISTENING:
Please fix the video quality in iMovie09 if not already. Yes, the quality is ok for YouTube or Internet video but for those of us who want simple editing to archive our family video we cannot accept poor video quality. Dropping an interlace field effectively halves the vertical resolution. Thank you.

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"rendered all the pictures in iMovie before exporting"
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Bill I see no obvious difference between the two images you posted, but if I had to make a guess then I would say that the rightmost image may be the Nikon processed one. Too close to call though. If mine were that close I couldn't possibly have an issue.
However, mine aren't anywhere near that close. Hopefully you will see why I consider this to be an issue.
The colour differences I am not concerened about, but the difference in the level of detail, I am.
Have a look at the examples at these links.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30207556@N03/3865233390/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30207556@N03/3864450905/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30207556@N03/3865233750/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30207556@N03/3865374872/
All are 100% crops of the same image.
The first in each sequence I imported into lightroom with my standard settings.
The second with the D3 Camera Standard profile
The third is exported directly from View NX with no.
All sharpening turned set to 0 in both programmes.
All images increased in exposure by 0.3
None are colour corrected after import or altered in any other way, so there will be differences in colour which I am not concerned with.
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The second sequence (Unsharpened-2) is a different view of the same image and shows the carved eagle.
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The third sequence (Basic-Sharpened) is a sharpened version of the same shot.
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LR set to 50 0.8 35.
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For the sake of completeness I have downloaded ACR 5.4 and re-done the test using camera raw instead ( ACR v VNX).
I haven't included any Capture One samples, but to all intents they are the same as the View NX samples.
I am open to the idea that there is something I am or am not doing, as I love the workflow through Lightroom and if I can match the detail levels I get via the other programmes then all will be well with the world.
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