iMovie / iDVD pixelation & noise

[Mark M. Florida]

On 4/18/04 11:47 AM, James Asherman at jimash at optonline.net wrote:

> If you in-house people would hire people like me we'd all be happier.

A little cranky due to lack of work, eh?  ;-)

I'm a very experienced editor (since '94 on various Mac editing systems),
and the problems that this thread brought up are due to serious bugs in
iMovie 4 -- I've seen them myself and the only way to "work around" them was
not to use iMovie at all.  To those of you claiming there are no problems
with the way iMovie 4 handles stills, I need to ask:

- Which version are you using?  iMovie 4 seems to be the culprit.

- How large are the images?  It made no difference on my system.

- Did you select the images through the iPhoto integration, or manually
import them?  Mine were manually imported.

- Which OS are you using?  QuickTime version?  10.3.3  and QuickTime 6.5
here -- latest updates on everything.

To re-iterate:  the problem is *NOT* due to MPEG2 compression -- even when
playing out to a TV via DV the image looks HORRIBLE -- way worse than even
the lowest bit-rate DVD, even worse than VCD!!!  It's obviously a
scaling/resampling issue in iMovie, and Apple needs to fix it.

</rant>

- Mark