Movie width expands when viewed in QT7, blurry

Hi Guys!
New to the forum and to iMovie, although lost in both for DAYS. Just got iMovie 4 to edit clips from client's dvd for use in Powerpoint and Web movies (not making movies from camera or for TV viewing). Everything is blurry in iMovie--clips (pulled from VOB with MPEGstreamclip), iMovie-generated titles, even photos from photoshop (regardless of orig resolution). Whatever export format or program my edited clips are view in, the ratchet effects remain.
Plus, even though when previewed in iMovie the height/width ratio is correct (albeit blurry), when viewed in Quicktime (7) or exported, the movie stretches widthwise, further enhancing the funhouse mirror effect.
I'm hope this stuff is elementary to you all--cause my head is about to fall off. Can anyone offer some wisdom?

IMovie display is just a preview -- it is not full quality display.
The same applies also to QT Player -- by default it shows a low-resolution deinterlaced image. You have to turn on high quality via the display options. ...And doing so may reveal those interlacing comb lines that are normal but look ugly on a computer monitor.
Always judge the quality via a TV monitor. A computer monitor can just imitate the correct interlacing, overscan or gamma.
The .dv clip is PAL 720x576 or NTSC 720x480. It uses rectangular pixels so by default the aspect ratio is wrong when viewed via the QT Player. iMovie automatically scales the image to (approximately) the correct ratio.
You can scale it to square pixel ratio in QT Player. With PAL you must scale to 788x576. With NTSC scale to 656x480. Often this is then cropped to PAL 768x576 or NTSC 640x480.
For more info, check:
http://www.iki.fi/znark/video/conversion/

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