Loss of quality of photos when I import

Hi all, I'm wondering 1) why my photos suddenly look so bad when I import them from iPhoto to iMovie. I haven't had this problem before. And 2) I've noticed that when I import a photo, suddenly my trash increases by 117 KB and if I view the trash, I see a copy of the picture there. What is going on?
I searched previous posts and tried resizing the photo in Photoshop before importing it, but nothing changed.
I'd appreciate any ideas or advice you have!

Finally got an answer from Apple about this. Technical Support have just been able to re-create the problem, and have admitted there is a fault. Have been told to wait for an update.
Hope this helps.
T

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Hi L
There are a great difference on photos shown on a Mac with eg. iPhoto or
PhotoShop and what's going to video.
a. Different resolution. Just the number of lines as the selected type of project
eg: PAL 4x3 = 625 lines ≈ same in pixles (But square not elongated or visa versa)
b. iMovie "Viewer" is just an approximation. I connected my miniDV Camera
to FW and analog to a TV. Select in pref - Play back via Camera. Now I see
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I'm currently travelling and my intention is to take photos using my camera, import them to my iPad using the lightning to SD connector and then upload the photos to cloud storage for safe keeping.
The problem I've found is when I import photos to my iPad the file size, and therefore quality of the photos, is reduced. I know this because I have tested uploading the same photo to Mega.co.nz cloud storage using both the iPad and a Nexus 4 phone - the iPad uploaded the photo at file size 2.9mb and the Nexus uploaded the photo at the original file size of 5.8mb.
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Sorry, issue resolved.
For those that may be having similar problems, the issue is the Mega.co.nz app that was created for apple products. It's possibly a bug that means it either compresses the file or does not accurately record the file size. I will report the fault to Mega.
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(..Sob!..) If you can bear the anguish and argument and technicalities and angst, Search for "Steve Mullen" and follow any of those threads: you'll find all manner of description about what's happening, what's going wrong, how to correct it, whether it can be corrected ..and so on, and so forth..
(See this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11846858&#11846858 ..)
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..I've followed Karl Petersen's instructions about how to change it into (apparent) top-notch quality like this:
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See here, and click on 'Start Slideshow'.
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It sounds like you are using two methods to upload to Facebook:
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2. Exporting pics and uploading to Facebook from the browser.
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4. Upload this pic into Facebook.
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