imovie and quality of slideshow

[macbos]

Hi, i Have made some slideshow in Photo to movie, and import them in to imovie to ad some translation effects. But after i export to .dv pr quicktime the quality seems much less.

Is there anyway to change this.

tnx.

[willrob]

dv output from iMovie isn't the best quality you can get. If you selected a better quality compressor when saving your Photo To Movie clips, you will see a clear downgrade when editing them in iMovie>DV.

I discovered this using iPhoto's slideshow export feature. The images looked great when viewed within iPhoto, but when exported to a dv movie they got soft looking. Then I exported the slideshow again as MPEG-4 it looked— just as sharp and clear as is does within iPhoto.

Plus the resulting movie was 1.3G, while the dv export was over 30G. I then burned a DVD from an iDVD project containing first the 30Gdv footge and then again with the MPEG-4 footage, and after the DVD's MPEG-2 conversion, the smaller MPEG-4 version was still clearly the better looking.