loss of quality with iMovie 3 when making a DVD

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in iPod + iTunes + AppleTV edited January 2014
I experience loss of quality when I make a DVD from video footage in my miniDV camcoder. The rendered movie doesn't look as good as the original import. I choose the target as DVD-NTSC in preferences. Should I try leaving it as original DV and see if it will work? I wanted to know before starting the damn rendering process which takes a few hours.

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  • Reply 1 of 3
    ipodandimacipodandimac Posts: 3,273member
    when you export from imovie, go to file>export>quicktime movie>full quality dv. everything should look fine.
  • Reply 2 of 3
    kingofsomewherehotkingofsomewherehot Posts: 4,180member
    If you don't save it as DV, then it will lose a little quality...



    If you are burning a "playable" DVD (for a DVD player) ... it encodes as mpeg and is compressed (not full DV) ... but that's the only way to make a "generic" DVD.



    If you're just saving it to a DVD to playback on your computer, then feel free to save it as the origional DV format.
  • Reply 3 of 3
    proxyproxy Posts: 232member
    iMovie 3 was a bag of junk anyway. I had all sorts of problems using it. Everything from popping noises in the audio to failure to render slowed down sequences when exporting. Get iMovie 4 if you possibly can.
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