Quality difference between Imovie 05 and 08.

Ihave a ordinary Sony handycam DV camera(DCR-HC39E).I have made some films with Imovie 05 and they were ok, but not as good as plugging directly from the camcorder in to the mac or a TV. Why so, isn´t digital digital. I bought the Ilife 08 hoping that the quality was better, but when i made the same film with 08 it was much more "blurry" than 05. I was realy dissapointed. Do I do something wrong or should I downgrade ?

Hi
iMovie'08 is something else than iMovie 1 to 6 and should have been named properly.
If You got iLife'08 then You are entitled to download iMovie HD 6 (6.0.4) which
is Great.
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/imovieHD6.html
If You copy/export Your movie back to Camera and a new miniDV tape You'll get
a quality which I can't differ from original.
DVDs - are hard compacted eg 25Gb down to 4.2Gb => There is a loss and depending
on how this encoding is done this quality vary from worse to better.
I use Verbatim DVDs
I use DVD-R disks
I burn at x1 speed (can be set in iDVD08)
I use Pro-encoding in iDVD08
I sequre at least 25Gb free space on internal hard disk (important)
This gives me a result I can stand for.
Yours Bengt W

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