Does anyone know a good video-editing program?

[Prototype]

I want to use iMovie, but whenever I import my HD image, it makes the quality worse, and the radial gradient looks horrible. Here is the image I'm trying to use: http://i342.photobucket.com/albums/o415/basstone97/2j3fkus.png

here is what it looks like once imported into iMovie '09: http://i342.photobucket.com/albums/o415/basstone97/Picture1-2.png

Is there a plugin for iMovie to fix this or something? I would you Final Cut, but my computer is slow enough, and adding heavy video-editing applications like that would not be good. Especially since I've had to replace my hard drive twice in the past year.

Please, can anyone help? I've been looking everywhere!

-Matt

 

[gilez]

I don't so much video work, but in graphic design we don't use JPG's or PNGs for anything. At all. Ever. JPG's and PNG's only store partial colour information, so when doing print work an image may not print as intended. I don't know if this applies to video editing but you might want to try exporting the slide as a .tif (or .tiff, either). as these save 100% of the colour information. Hope this helps.

 

[xstep]

Gilez's suggestion of using a Tiff improves things. I did that by converting your image, and used iMovie 09 and exported to 1920x1080. I also tried the PNG, but the effect was garbage as you mentioned.

By the way, your graphic is not HD size. It is only 1600x900, so that may be contributing to the poor result. I also think your image effect isn't perfect either because I can make out the rings on my MBP. Perhaps it looks better on a better monitor?