MacBook – Export from IMovie is very blurry

imoviemacbook pro

I need to put some videos online (screencast) I am using screen flow and the output is a mp4 that looks great.

I import them into iMovie to add titles and footers and in preview it looks GREAT but if I do a share to youtube its so blurry on youtube and if I try the export its the same issue

Best Answer

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

  1. YouTube problem
  2. 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.

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