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how would you handle screen video in iMovie? - Marcello Santos - 06-28-2007
It's like this: I have some nice quality 640x480 video of things happening on a computer screen - taken with screen capure software - and it's quite nice when played in quicktime. bringing it into iMovie turns it into, shall we say, not such nice, not so sharp video. I"ve tried bring it into iMovie directly, exporting DV from quicktime and other stuff.
Is there anyway to keep screen video sharp in iMovie?
Re: how would you handle screen video in iMovie? - deerfieldtjr - 06-28-2007
If you are bringing it in at 640x480, it is staying at that resolution in iMovie. Recall that iMovie presents a lower resolution/quality while in the program ("preview mode") as part of resource management. When you export your completed movie out of iMovie, it will be in final, full quality which should, in your case, be as good as 640x480 can be.
Re: how would you handle screen video in iMovie? - Marcello Santos - 06-28-2007
deerfieldtjr makes a lot of sense - indeed we can see that regular video has a somewhat crappy look to it as well. unfortunately the logic doesn't apply in my case - even full quality export looks crappy. sigh.
but wait, mp4 at a high bit rate looks good, so at least it's theoretically possible to get some quality. not sure about file size though...
thanks