Poor Video after importing from Camcorder

I am inputing from a Canon Elura 100 which uses MiniDV. Used many times with PC with excellent quality. When I input to IMovie the picture appears very sharp as it is downloading. It appears to have loaded a high resolution since 20 minutes occupies about 6GB of storage. However, all of the clips, any movies I render all are very fuzzy. When I got to Share and Media Browser it only lets me render in Mobile. I tried exporting at high definition with no better results. Using my PC on this material, the DVDs are of high quality. What is wrong?

Try sending it to iDVD and burning it before you judge. First, your display is a progressive device, and may not display interlaced video properly even though it will look fine on a TV. Second, iMovie adjusts playback quality so that it doesn't drop frames. The quality of your actual video is unchanged.

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