iMovie quality question...

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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Ok everyone, don't start flaming for my idiocy of this question, But I have yet to find out 2 things in iMovie.



1.) How do you render a movie that will be as clear as the format it was recorded on. I don't care about disc size, i'll work with the compression later. But I can render a 3 minute quicktime movie on my PC with Vegas Video in damn near DVD quality, and it'll only take up 20MB or so. With iMovie, I can render it in uncompressed video using the "for iDVD" export option which is 720x480 and it looks like I recorded it with a $5 camcorder, yet still consuming 450MB. There has got to be a clearer option.



2.) How do you get a final render of a movie with CLEARLY LEGABLE TEXT? All of mine come out blocky and sometimes hard to read.



Please help, I don't want to use my PC for ANYTHING, especially for DV production.



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    jregojrego Posts: 56member
    One thing I've noticed is that my graphics card/hard drive sometimes cannot keep up with huge near-lossless formats, and thus playing them can look... pretty bad. Sorenson Video 3 (highly compressed) files often look better than DV stream files (which aren't compressed nearly as much), though the quality is really much less, which is apparent when played on a very fast machine, or on a DVD disk. If you burn it to a DVD, do you still have that problem? If not, you may want to upgrade to a high speed SCSI drive (or RAID, if you can spare the money), get a graphics card, or fix whatever you determine is the problem. The numbers you quoted come out to 2.5MBytes/sec, or 20Mbits/sec. Check the info on your type of drive to make sure it can go at least this fast.



    As for the clearly legible text, that may be caused by the same problem, or it may be the encoding method that you used. Try exporting to QuickTime and playing with those settings. Good luck!
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