Maintaining 1920X1080 in imovie hd 6

I have been experimenting with some hd 1920-1080i footage and editing it in imoviehd 6, but when i go to export it to quick time it only offers me 720 X480 ... any suggestions on how best to maintain the hd formatting--

When you pick "Export" the next window make sure "Quicktime" is selected at the top and "Expert Setting" from the Compression menu.
THen when you click "Share" it takes you to the file name dialogue. In there make sure "Movie to Quicktime" is selected and click OPTIONS to either confirm 1080i is the default or to change those setting in the OPTIONS.
should do it...

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I don't have your camera, but this is worth a try...
Try importing your MP4 files by using FILE/IMPORT MOVIE... and navigate to your camera card to select the MP4 files.

IMovie 6HD Crashing

I have an intel iMac and it is my first mac. I'm starting to wonder if I should have gotten this mac as a first one because I am reading about several problems with them and I am experiencing some problems of my own. I can import clips fine into iMovie but when I am editing them the whole program will crash and the clips will go into the trash can and when I pull them out of the trash they are all jumbled up, this has happened to me about 4 times now.
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I can import clips fine into
iMovie but when I am editing them the whole program
will crash and the clips will go into the trash can
and when I pull them out of the trash they are all
jumbled up.
Any recommendations?
Yes, here's one: You may not be saving the project as often as you should.
Clips don't go into the iMovie trash on their own. When iMovie moves clips to the trash without your asking, it's usually because iMovie crashed before you saved newly-imported clips or clips created by iMovie. Transitions, for example.
Here's what happens: When you import clips/photos/whatever, iMovie adds new files to the Media folder inside the project. (These are the source files for those clips.) When you next save the project, iMovie updates the project file to include a description of those clips, their source files, and all the other editing you've done. The next time you open the project iMovie recognizes those clips and their source files.
Saving updates the project file stored inside the project. This file is the heart of the project. It "remembers" all your edits, the names of imported files, everything.
If you DON'T save and iMovie crashes later, iMovie won't recognize the imported files when the project next opens. iMovie has no record of your importing them, so it doesn't know what they are.
iMovie has to do SOMETHING with the files it doesn't recognize when the project opens, so it moves them to the iMovie Trash. That lets you rescue them — drag them back to the timeline or do whatever you want with them.
For the reason you cited — the clips getting all jumbled — you don't want this problem to occur. Saving avoids the problem.
The same thing occurs, by the way, if the project is saved on an external disk that has an improper disk format. Then iMovie can't (always) save successfully to disk, which leads to a similar situation. Confusion for iMovie. Missing files. Stuff in the iMovie trash.
If you save as you should, yet Movie fails to "remember" the clips and other editing you've done, make sure the disk is formated correctly and that you have no iMovie plug-ins or QuickTime add-ons installed that prevent iMovie from working properly. More here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1852869#1852869
Don't let these break-in problems make you overly concerned about your iMac. Odds are excellent that it's perfectly fine. You will learn the tricks you need to know about how to minimize the impact when things misfire — like saving often — and how to maintain your Mac. iMovie isn't perfect — no application is — so expect to see some minor problems. You'll learn how to minimize the impact when they occur.
Every person here has a unique opinion about what to expect from iMovie — and what not to expect. "Long projects are trouble." "Long projects work fine." To some degree, those opinions arise out of our unique editing styles. Some of us edit quite conservatively; others create very complicated projects. Without intending to, I suspect the "heavy editors" create projects that are difficult for iMovie to handle. Slowdowns occur, for example.
My sense is these problems are often related to lots of audio editing. I can't say for sure, for I have never seen those problems in spite of trying to create them. I create both short and long projects, test editing with both a "light" and "heavy" hand, but can't force those problems to occur.
Do the common-sense things. Save often, make backups, make sure the routine maintenance for your iMac gets done, and everything will probably be just fine. When there are problems, search for answers here. Others will have probably seen the same problem.
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I recently bought a Panasonic GH-1 and shot some video in MOTION JPEG VGA 640x480. Next I discovered that my Powerbook G-4 was too old and slow to do much editing so I bought a new MacBook Pro. Now I find that I can't import the video into iMovie09. I read one post that said you could load VGA into iPhoto and then into iMovie but that doesn't seem to work for me. Does anyone have any suggestions? Could I load an older version of iMovie, import the video into that and then somehow export to 09? Any help would be much appreciated.

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Just did a very quick test in iMovie.
Selected a short clip of imported HD footage from a PAL Sony HC3.
The camera captures with rectangular pixels at 1440x1080 which get imported as 1920x1080 into iMovie 08 stored as AIC files (iMovie 06 did the same).
Tried to export the clip to DV.
Selected Share>Export using Quicktime and Movie to DVStream.
Initial output was botched as it saved as a 640x480 NTSC stream, with 4:3 aspect ratio when played back via QT.
Second attempt selected the Options and PAL/16:9 settings, and this time it output a PAL DV stream which displays as a 1024x576 movie with 16:9 aspect ratio in QT.
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I normally edit with FCP7, but FCP7 will not import HDV footage properly, it's all buggy and normally I have to go to Imovie when I tape in 30P. There's never any issues getting 1280 x 720 video with Imovie, it's only now that I taped something in 60p that the capture is not getting the full aspect ratio.
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Thanks for that info! Even in my time answering questions on iMovie Discussion Group, I never had a good understanding of when and how Optimize Movie came into play. I always would import as Optimized and Large Size and figured that was good enough. But knowing you got much, much more flexibility doing it the way you describe gives me a much better understanding of the different routes you can take into the Event Library.

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