Did you get a chance to try this?
I am desperate right now. I have just finished editing the video for my cousin's wedding. I have at least 50 hours of editing in it already and when I just exported straight from iMovie 11 to iTunes, the outcome is unacceptable. Horrible artifacts anywhere that is even remotely dark. It never looked like this in the preview windows in iMovie.
This is from both a Canon T2i and Canon Vixia video camera, both at high settings. And I do still have all of the raw footage, but if I have to start over, that is every bit of my time down the drain.
If I export using QuickTime as suggested above, what settings should I be using? My ultimate output will be a DVD and digital format in as high quality as possible.
Yes I did try the above, andit didnt go too well.
Imported the project to FCPX perfectly fine - it kep all transitions and edits etc in place, and also pulled over the events associated with the project.
Whenever I tried to export FCPX would just crash after a few mins of rendering! Not sure why this happens as FCPX works and exports projects created within it perfectly fine, but didnt want to export the iMovie imported file for some reason.
I have the same issue though - in the iMovie preview window everything looks fine - so I dont think its an issue with my recorded video, or with the import procress. Its not AIC causing the issues either, since in the preview its fine. It all points towards the actual export process.
Ive tried several different settings when exporting and always seem to get the same.
I guess my solution for now is to get more light onto my subject so that I dont have the darker patches! Either that or I may try moving across to FCPX (reluctantly).
Its a shame since it messes up an otherwise good piece of software.