quality issue AVCHD / iMovie

[guil]

Hi all,

I am importing my AVCHD files from my Sony SR5 cam into iMovie (very latest iMac 20", 2.66 GHz, 4 Gb RAM).

I find that the quality is very poor when playing the result on my iMac screen. Of course, I am not expecting the same quality that I have when I plug directly the cam to my HD TV, but I was hoping something better.

I even find that the import on my Vista PC using the Sony software is much better than on iMac.

Do we loose quality when converting in AIC ?

Do you experience the same thing ?
Any clue, advice, comment ?

Thanks !

 

[Cmu93]

I have the same iMac... bought it about 2 weeks ago. I'm importing AVCHD into FCE and iMovie 08, and they look perfect. Are you sure you're importing into iMovie in the Large 1920x1080 size? The preview/edit screen never looks as good as the actual movie once it's exported. That's when you'll see it look amazing.

Tom

 

[guil]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

I have tried to export but I feel that I still have the same quality issue with the exported file.

I am importing the video in Large format.

The dark colors are especially bad (noisy and fuzzy).

Are there some export settings that I should double-check ?

thanks again

 

[foudordi]

Faded colors

Hi.
I think I might have the same problem. Every time I export a video with imovie 08, the colors are all washed out and the blacks are not as deep as the original.
At first, I exported directly to h264 files.
Then I tried to export as quicktime files (using h264 too) and the colours were less faded, but still it's definitely not the origine saturation.

Anyone experiences the same issue?