Saving to QT "CD" quality , differences between iMovie 5 & iMovie 6

Hi, iMovie 6 seems to save movies to QT "CD" quality differently from iMovie 5 , this is causing me problems with a site I work with. Can anyone tell me if this is a quirk of my settings or is a general "issue". How do you get iMovie 5 to save to 320 x 240 rather than 320 x 230?
iM 5.....FPS 14.98 / iM6.....12.02
iM5....... FORMAT : IMA 4:1, Stereo, 44.100 kHz
H.263, 320 x 230, Millions
iM6.....FORMAT AAC, Stereo, 32.000 kHz
H.264 Decoder, 320 x 240, Millions
Size: (iM5) 320 x 230 pixels..... (iM6) 320 x 240 pixels
Best
Ronnie

You may want to look beyond iMovie. Visual Hub can convert to CD quality, ie, mpeg1 (and many other formats such as Flash-check to see if other formats would be better for streaming). MPEG Streamclip can also convert Quicktime files to other formats (check whether it can convert to mpeg1). It is free, but typically you need to buy Apple's mpeg2 plug-in. Roxio Toast can create VideoCDs (that have mpeg1 files) and can do a number of file format conversions.
John

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