Poor Quality After Importing Video

Has anyone noticed that the quality is poor after importing a DV file to iMovie? If so, is there any way to fix this or avoid the problem altogether

I think it may depend on the video camera. Some video cameras have this happen when used with iMovie. When I import video from my JVC Everio directly into iMovie '11, the video comes in very out of focus. I have to use the steps outlined on this page to get the video into iMovie '11 properly.

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Gratefully yours, Daniel

I'm not quite clear exactly how you imported - if your events were from iMovie 9 the correct procdure would be first to recover your iMovie Events and iMovie Projects folder from Time Machine.
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TimeRemapper,
Here's the project: http://videohive.net/item/photo-album/94595
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Rendering to local SATA drive, same as the source files.
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a jumpy mess as the result.
The images I switched out are mostly smaller than the ones in the sampler
and about the same as the scanned pictures I used in my trial run.
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back into Pr? (added to video interview). If I export it, it needs to be 720
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Sorry- I meant to add this is CS5.5
Jeff- I've been using this same font for other projects without problem. This just started happening on this project. Yes, it is a serif font but no problems before. It's always rendered well [Adobe Arabic].
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Hi,
I'm making project in iMovie'09
I'm mixing movies with photos in my project.
But in my iMovie project - pictures are poor quality.
iMovie probably use less colors what you can see on dark parts of photos and movies.
I read somewhere that it can be only in iMovie preview - when iMovie use worse quality movies for
faster running. So I exported my movie to different formats to check how it will look like.
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http://pokazywarka.pl/imovie-quality/
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Best regards,
Patrick

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Hey there,
I was hoping to create a watermark that fades into my videos 20 or so seconds in, then fades out after another 10 seconds.
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I use the camera that the model is Sony HDR-HC3.
When i capture the 1080i source recorded by above model,
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The image will break in several shadow when the shot is presenting
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Melfice,
I had the same problem. I tried different FW & HD settings and still got poor quality. Then I tried an HD tape and got the same results. So, I took my Sony back and traded for Canon's new HD (HV10), and found the quality to be MUCH better. I don't know why and would rely on someone with bigger brains for that answer.
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