1. Just want to double check something - with iMovie
HD, assuming you use the KBE on all still photos
imported, is it best to hit "Create iDVD project"
when you're done (unlike for iMovie 4, which you said
not to)?
If I understand you, that's not quite true. There's never an ADVANTAGE to using the "Create iDVD Project" button. Once the KBE has rendered the images, ANY method you use to create the DVD is fine. The "Create iDVD Project" button offers no particular advantage over other methods.
But using the button may be a DISADVANTAGE if the KBE has NOT rendered the images. Then when you press the "Create iDVD Project" button, iMovie will ask permission to render the images. If you say Yes, iMovie will add the jaggies as it renders the images. If you say No, iMovie will tell iDVD to do the rendering, which it does pretty well.
The KBE renders the image with the best quality, in my opinion, so that's its advantage. An important side benefit, of course, is that once the image is rendered, iMovie won't ask to render the images again when you press the "Create iDVD Project" button, so the jaggies bug doesn't have the chance to gnaw on your images.
2. Also, I assume that the KBE effect is only needing
to be on for photos coming from iPhoto, not for
stills created from part of an iMovie (such as a
still made from a clip that was previously a photo
but then turned into a clip). Clear?
Remember, the KBE affects ALL images coming into iMovie from iPhoto, from a Finder window, or anywhere else. All imported images pass through the Ken Burns Effect. (For the image to rendered into video, the Ken Burns Effect checkbox must be turned on. All the other KBE import settings always apply, e.g. the duration.)
But a still you've created with the "Create Still Frame" command is NOT considered an imported image. The still does NOT pass through the Ken Burns Effect, and iMovie won't let you later Update the still with the KBE.
(The image is always terrible quality anyway, so you probably don't want it. Save the frame as a PICT instead, then import it.)
3. Lastly, for a movie brought in from iMovie 4 and
for which I never hit "Create iDVD project", and for
a clip in that movie made from a photo from iPhoto
that I had turned the KBE on for, I should be o.k.,
right? Shouldn't have to delete it and reimport,
correct?
That's correct. Once the image has been rendered into a video clip, it's like any other video clip. iMovie won't ask to render it.
Thanks so much.
You're welcome.
Karl
