Importing into iMovie

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Importing into iMovie

Postby Cavechan » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:44 pm

Hi all. I'm pretty new to iMovie having only made 2 (crappy) AMVs, but for this one I'm working on, I want the highest quality. I used Clip Creator to cut the files and they look perfectly fine afterwards. (: But when I import them into iMovie, it compresses them. ): Is there a setting or something so it... doesn't do this?

Specifications: I'm on a loverly iBook G4 MacOSX and I've had it for just over 2 years, so I probably don't have the latest version of iMovie. D: *shrug*
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Postby obh04 » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:18 pm

Is the the video in widescreen? Is iMovie compressing them to fit as full screen? iDVD does the same thing and there is a way to correct it, however it requires QuickTime Pro. Other then that I am not sure how to fix that problem. If you have QT Pro try this.
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Postby Cavechan » Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:55 am

It doesn't change the size of the video, just the quality.

Here is the before image:

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This is exported as a "high quality DV"

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And this is it as a non-compressed .avi (this is also how it appears in iMovie itself in the preview screen):

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D: If it can't work my boyfriend said he could do a filter on it, I'd rather have the high-quality though... =X
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Postby Kai Stromler » Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:49 am

It looks like iMovie is trying to do some kind of interlacing-processing on the video. If you haven't deinterlaced before importing (though it sure looks like you have), you ought to do so rather than relying on the editor's internal capabilities. To get rid of the current problem, try going in your project or clip settings and see if you can tell the editor to treat the input as full frames rather than interlaced, and not to do any interlace post-processing on export. I can't be 100% confident on this as I don't use iMovie, but this looks a lot like the problems that I had back before I got Magix completely dialed in.

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Postby Minion » Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:17 pm

theres some kind of "export full quality" option or something if i remember right.
i had to teach an imovie class last year so i needed to learn it
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Postby Minion » Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:22 pm

alright, im on a mac right now. heres how ya do it.
on the top menu, goto share>quicktime. now on the drop down menu, pick full quality.

now you should have a lossless DV file. idk what mac program you use to compress to xvid or another codec though, so this is as far as i can take you.
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Postby Cavechan » Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:45 pm

Kai Stromler wrote:It looks like iMovie is trying to do some kind of interlacing-processing on the video. If you haven't deinterlaced before importing (though it sure looks like you have), you ought to do so rather than relying on the editor's internal capabilities. To get rid of the current problem, try going in your project or clip settings and see if you can tell the editor to treat the input as full frames rather than interlaced, and not to do any interlace post-processing on export.


I'll try and see what I can do... =\

alright, im on a mac right now. heres how ya do it.
on the top menu, goto share>quicktime. now on the drop down menu, pick full quality.

now you should have a lossless DV file.


That's what the second screenshot it... it's worse than the uncompressed .avi. I'm pretty positive this happens when I -import- into iMovie, since it shows up on the iMovie preview screen like the third screenshot.
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Postby Minion » Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:57 pm

hmm. scale the video down when you compress it? all i can think up.
hopefully an imovie guru will pop in
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