Poor quality of exported video

Hi all, I have imported some HD video as "large" size. From the Event Library it plays nice and smoothly and does the same in the project window. When it is exported as a "large" movie, it is also sharp and clear but camera pans and zooming are a bit jittery, as if some of the frames are missing. This is the first time I have imported HD video from an SD card camera and was a bit disappointed with the result. I have tried importing as full size but it made no difference, the exported movie is still jittery during panning and zooming. Is this normal with iMovie? If it is, would "Final Cut Express" be a solution to the problem or would purchasing that be a waste? Grateful for any help and advice.
.......Videonumpty.

thanks for your replies, I have had no problems with standard def. video from an SD card camera and DV from tape cameras. It looks like something which iMovie does to HD video even when the exporting is not done full size.
It seems that many consumers are buying HD cameras because they think they have to have them, most owners have no interest in editing at all, no matter what camera they have. Not only that, how many people burn their wonderful edited HD footage to a BlueRay disc and put it into a BR player to watch it on their 46" HD telly - no one I know that's for sure! The last person I spoke to who had an HD camera had never heard of BlueRay!
Technology is relentless but the average human brain can only take so much!!!!!!!!

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