Clarity iMovie 08 vs Quicktime

Having downloaded via Firewire form the camera imovie08 clips look a bit wishy washy. I fired up the same raw DV clip in QT and it is clear as day.

Why doesn't the imovie look as clear?

Many thanks for ideas.

I think iM08 displays the mini movie it creates for skimming. That quality likely isn't as nice as the original DV file. Also, the size of the playback image can have an affect, so make those the same when comparing.

I'd just create a small project clip, and export to QuickTime in the Apple Intermediate Codec format and look at the result in QiuckTime. The export would use the DV source, not the mini skimming movie, so it should look nice.

I had been exporting via iTunes Large and it is messy vs a QT export. I tape golf swings at high frame rates so QT deinterlaced efforts come up way better. Many thanks for redirection of the export type.

Having done the QT file, if I wish to move the Event File to an external hard drive for possible future use, how do I move it AND the imovie Project File of the project which made the QT clip so the the MacbookPro can find both to use in future projects? Seems you need to move a package of stuff over to the Ext Drive not just the event?

Someone suggested QT Pro to edit in. Having imovie08 that seems a bit of a double up of editing capacity, or am I missing some simple useful things?

Again many thanks xstep.

See the third answer here.

I suspect you could move the appropriate project file from the iMovie Projects folder to another users account if you had to. Just haven't tried that.

Using QT Pro when you already have iM08 and could load iMovie HD seem wasteful. There are tricks QT Pro have that are useful, but for straight editing I'd go with iMovie or better.

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Thanks xstep. Worked well this end.