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Where's the problem?

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A Chicken Says More
Than a 1000 Words.

Moviemakers proverb



What you see above is an actual screenshot - to be honest: TWO screenshots, composed. one is the original file, a mts/AVHCD from a Canon HF100; this video was imported into iMovie09, and via 'Reveal in Finder' found and opened with QTplayer app. The pic is NOT processed by any means, I just made the 'stripes' to show you the astonishing differences: 
colors washed out, low saturation, low contrasts - SOMETHING'S WRONG HERE!!

Want another example?  OK, here we go: 


left the original, to the right, what iM does on export … we have to change that!

It‘s obvious, esp. the red roof dramatically lose color! And we lose detail. e.g. in the white sheet in foreground, there's no 'Zeichnung' .. (I teach you German!) ... 















source: own file




Is this just brightness? Is this saturation? What's going on here…?



FullHD isn't FullHD!


.. you have a FullHD/1920 device; you import 'Full', not 'Large', your Project is set to HiDEf… and on export somethings happening here, have a look:


   

                (FullHD file in Project/Event)                   (file opened with QT/our well known red-green)


and now, the proof, iM09 does NOT handle 1920 internally as 1920:


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What do we see here? I did choose in iM09 'Export using QT' and did choose manually 'AIC/1920i' - but!


The FullHD/1920 interlaced import (red/green) gets converted  - one field (the green one) is lost!




And this is not the only problem…! >> next page >>