Screen recording becomes blurry after exporting to iMovie

After creating a screen recording using Quicktime (and the video is perfectly clear), I am trying to export to iMovie to edit the video more easily and to add an audio track. However, once the video is turned into an iMovie project, it is blurry. Still blurry after stabilization too.
Is this a minimum information guessing game? Is this a "full" or "partial" screen recording? What are the actual dimensions of the screen capture? Was the capture made using QT or a third-party app? Did you perform a manual or automatic "export" or simply import the screen capture file to iMovie? In what type iMovie project are you editing the exported or imported screen captured file? Why are you stabilizing a screen recording? (I.e., the stabilization routine further rescales the content.)
If I were merely to make a guess, It would be that your work flow is rescaling the content making it blurry in iMovie as compared to the original capture file.

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Hi
Im using quicktime to do screen recordings and want to upload them to youtube.
Now the problem is when i upload the video to youtube when it is put on full screen the menu and words become slightly out of focus on the screen unless put in full HD.
Im using an iMac 21.5 inch.
Can anybody help me
Cheers
Alex

After creating a screen recording using Quicktime (and the video is perfectly clear), I am trying to export to iMovie to edit the video more easily and to add an audio track. However, once the video is turned into an iMovie project, it is blurry. Still blurry after stabilization too.
Is this a minimum information guessing game? Is this a "full" or "partial" screen recording? What are the actual dimensions of the screen capture? Was the capture made using QT or a third-party app? Did you perform a manual or automatic "export" or simply import the screen capture file to iMovie? In what type iMovie project are you editing the exported or imported screen captured file? Why are you stabilizing a screen recording? (I.e., the stabilization routine further rescales the content.)
If I were merely to make a guess, It would be that your work flow is rescaling the content making it blurry in iMovie as compared to the original capture file.

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Thanks, I brushed up my old knowledge of unix and used Terminal to go over to the folders...
Unfortunately did not see any .mov file
a number of files like these:
drwxr-xr-x 4 root            wheel           136 Aug 28 11:11 zzzivhrRnAmviuee+++++++++++
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drwxr-xr-x 5 _locationd      _locationd      170 Sep 3 22:21 zzzivhrRnAmviuee++++nE+++Ao
drwxr-xr-x 4 _cvmsroot       _cvms           136 Aug 28 10:44 zzzivhrRnAmviuee++++p++++BE
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Screen recording becomes blurry after exporting to iMovie

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