Hi,
I have the following issue : I captured some video with a sony HD camera in 1440x1080 60i. I edit them in imovie 11 then export but no matter what I try, the result is terrible.
the scenes were filmed at night so the image is somewhat grainy but still ok. The output is not, dark areas are very blocky, faces and details are blurred.
After many, many tries and searches in forums, the best result I get is with the following steps :
import full quality in iMovie, edit.
export via quicktime, x264 codec, H.264, AAC, 720p format.
... but even so the quality remains quite low. I tried to use huge bitrates to avoid compression but that doesn't help much. I seem to lose quality at import and export.
What should I do ? the original video (mts files) are both of reasonable size and good quality, there must be a way to get a the same result after editing ?????
I really need help : this is for my dad who is really, really sick. I'd like to cheer him up a bit. Thanks.
I have the following issue : I captured some video with a sony HD camera in 1440x1080 60i. I edit them in imovie 11 then export but no matter what I try, the result is terrible.
the scenes were filmed at night so the image is somewhat grainy but still ok. The output is not, dark areas are very blocky, faces and details are blurred.
After many, many tries and searches in forums, the best result I get is with the following steps :
import full quality in iMovie, edit.
export via quicktime, x264 codec, H.264, AAC, 720p format.
... but even so the quality remains quite low. I tried to use huge bitrates to avoid compression but that doesn't help much. I seem to lose quality at import and export.
What should I do ? the original video (mts files) are both of reasonable size and good quality, there must be a way to get a the same result after editing ?????
I really need help : this is for my dad who is really, really sick. I'd like to cheer him up a bit. Thanks.