... also during every
transition and/or title to a still photo (without the
KBE) the pictures were fine. It wasn't until the
transition was over that the "jagged edges would
appear.
Good catch. Yes, iMovie renders transitions better than than it does the image itself. Apparently it doesn't use the same algorithm for both. Nor does it use the same algorithm when rendering with the Ken Burns Effect.
(Ironically, in iDVD the jaggies are reversed. I find transitions in standalone iDVD slideshows tend to show jaggies, while the images look fine.)
Furthermore the titles that were done on
non-photo backgrounds rendered the words jagged as
well.
Judging titles is tricky. Titles that appear to have jaggies in iMovie often look fine played on the TV. (They are affected by iMovie's marginal DISPLAY of the video.)
If they don't good on the TV, the title font may be the problem. Sans-serif fonts tend to look better -- they have straight edges, no curly-cues and doo-dads that tend to render poorly. Rendering one-pixel-wide lines of text with lots of curves is very, very tricky, so it's important to use a simple font. (Both rendering the clip in iMovie and encoding the video of the text in iDVD are difficult tasks.)
About sans-serif fonts:
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/s/sans_serif.html
So I suggest you think of the title problem as a separate issue that is probably best solved by trying other fonts. I believe Dan Slagle's unofficial FAQ site offers some advice about that.
1. I'd like to not have to start over, and try and
recover the "rendered good" photos and just replace
the "jagged" titles and the "jagged" rendered photos.
Can I do this in the same project, by just
re-importing the photos using the KBE effect and
replacing the "jagged edge" photos,
Yes, that will work. There's no need to start over with a new project.
replacing the titles with new ones, but this time
when I go to iDVD - DON'T agree to render them?
Will this fix the problem, or do I have to start a
whole new project over?
All titles are rendered by iMovie when you create them. iDVD never renders your titles. (It encodes the video of the titles later, of course.)
To add to this I grabbed a picture and dragged it to
the clip boxes using the KBE (setting it correctly by
moving it a little to the right and then all the way
to the left at start & end, as well, doing the same
with out the KBE effect on) and yet the picture still
was "jagged". I then tried going to file and
imported the image from there and the "jags" did not
appear. Curious to why this happens? It was the
same picture that was on my desktop.
The method used to import the image shouldn't matter. (I've never noticed a difference.) If you can confirm that by testing other photos, please say. Don't be confused by how iMovie sometimes displays the first frame of a clip so poorly. Play the clip a bit to make an informed judgement.
2. In reference to digital video that I have cut and
spliced together. It seems when I put a transition in
and dissolve into another frame, the audio on the
video seems to click right at the transition, even if
I fade it all the way down. I have even tried to
extract the audio and delete it then add music to the
scene via i tunes, and in the background were the
transition is you can still here a click, like a
scratch sound on a CD or record. How can I make this
disappear???? I would like a smoother audio
transition.
Yes, that's a long-standing iMovie/QuickTime issue that some users have and some don't. (I haven't seen it since iMovie 3.) I recall someone recently posting what he/she considered a solution. You may want to search for it. Note that sometimes the problem doesn't follows the project onto the DVD, so listen to the DVD to be sure it exists there. Sometimes it's just a playback issue in iMovie that can be ignored. (Less true in iMovie HD, unfortunately.)
Thanks in advance for your patience and any help.
You're welcome. Hope something here helps.
Karl
