Importing mini DV with iMovie flickering

If quality is important to you, here is the best way.

Use OS 10.6.x if you can. (Newer OSs will work also but you will have to control the ADVC300 manually.)

ADVC300 > iMovie 06 > iDVD 09/11

I have a drawer full of analog-to-digital converters. After using the Grass Valley ADVC300 I find nothing else acceptable.

The program that comes with the ADVC300 has some nice filters that can improve video and audio of the source material. The ADVC300 will take Audio and Video from any source (VCR, Tivo, Satellite Receiver) and convert it to FireWire (iMovie will treat it like a camera).

I've played around with countless other conversion systems, ranging in price from $79 to $399. Short verison, this is the ONLY unit to own. No dropped frames at all, even with questionable quality tapes, no jitter, great color, excellent sound quality. Zero setup with iMovie 06 and iDVD 09/11.

I would use iMovie 06 with iDVD 09/11, why?

iMovies 09-13 and iMovie 10 uses 'single field processing' meaning every other horizontal line of the video is thrown out, which reduces the sharpness of the footage. iMovie 06 uses ALL of the image to form the video.

After lots of experimenting I get the best results using OS 10.6, iMovie 06, and iDVD 09/11. My movies look just like Hollywood!

Well, I have for better or worse, an earlier and a later version of iMovie, and when I tried the later one, 10.0.05 the same problem would appear. However after I switched over to the older one, 9.0.2, it worked fine. The later version is slicker, but since it does not work....hope this helps.

I have this same issue. Does anyone have a solution that is not a pitch for another product?

Thanks