Picking up on this thread and FWIW, Users of FCP and presumably FCE should de-interlace all stills prior to exporting the final product. This makes a huge difference Unfortunately, this will not help iMovie users. Ian T. Do I dare answer? Mike :) On Feb 18, 2008, at 9:05 PM, Gordon Alley wrote: > OK. I'll bite. > > If I want to output to to video tape, rather than to a DVD, what's > the best app to use to render stills? > > -Gordon > > On Feb 18, 2008 8:51 PM, Mike Rehbein <rotorwash at mac.com> wrote: > That is correct. It is preferred to let some other app other than > iMovie render stills. > > Mike > > On Feb 18, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Norman S. Briskman wrote: > > > After reading all of this thread I am left with a question. When I > > finish an edit in iMovie I export it > > to the camcorder mini dv tape. From that tape I can make VHS or DVD. > > I have always selected > > the "Render and Proceed" in the process. Do I understand that this > > is not a preferred choice, or > > dose it only apply to using iDVD? > > > > Norman > > > > On Feb 18, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Mike Rehbein wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> When iMovie asks "Your movie contains still, slow motion, and/or > >> reverse clips which need to be rendered for this export. This will > >> provide the best quality. Would you like to render them now?" > >> The responses are "Proceed Anyway", "Cancel", "Render and Proceed". > >> > -- > Gordon B. Alley > http://www.gordonalley.com > _______________________________________________ > MacDV mailing list > MacDV at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/macdv/attachments/20080219/7694942b/attachment.html