I am desperately trying to finish this iMovie video for someone and I am having difficulty with the playback of my still images. They look great/normal when scrolling through the storyboard, but as soon as I press play the images blur. I am using iMovie 10.0.5 on a MacBook Pro from 2009. Any help would be beyond greatly appreciated! Thank you!
All stills added to iMovie are blurry during playback
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It's not an iMovie problem.
It's a YouTube problem.
You say that you are exporting as an .mp4 file. You also state that the video looks great while previewing it on your local machine. This rules out any iMovie problem.
The only thing left is either
- YouTube problem
- Connection problem
I am reasonably sure it's a YouTube problem - I don't know much about YouTube. You might have to get some kind of 'Premium' account to upload high-quality stuff.
If you say it uploads fine to YouTube, that rules out a connection issue, unless YouTube does some kind of upload speed test to determine what quality to upload. Highly unlikely in my opinion.
⌘-click on all the pictures that you want to adjust the timing of in the timeline.
Go to Window → Show Adjustments Bar or press 3.
Select the info button on the adjustments bar.
Enter the duration into the box on the right and press Enter.
This will change the duration of all the selected clips (or in this case, pictures).
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Best Answer
Have you tried exporting your video? Sometimes iMovie downscales things while playing it back in the application.
If that doesn't work try copy and pasting your project timeline into a new project and re-insert the images you have.