How to Improve & Enhance the Video Quality in iMovie

Summary: iMovie is great video editor which allows you making your own stylish movies by providing thousands of render options. If the videos we have are cheap quality, there is a way to improve the quality in iMovie; Some people reported that there is quality loss after exporting from iMovie. Today I am going to tell you how to handle iMovie bad video quality and enhance video quality in iMovie (11/10/9 included).

How to Adjust iMovie Video Quality (Colors, Brightness, Contrast, and Other Image Qualities)

iMovie contains a number of tools to let you improve the image quality of any video clip or photo you've added to a project, including levels of black and white, exposure, brightness, contrast, saturation and so forth.

• Step 1: Go to Preferences in iMovie, in General tab, and make sure the "Show Advanced Tools" option is ticked.
  
  
• Step 2: In the Project browser, double-click the video you want to adjust, and then click Video section in Inspector window.
• Step 3: In video adjustment window, there are levels of red, blue, and green in the image's shadows and highlights.
• Step 4: You can manually drag the slider bar to adjust the levels, or click Auto button at the bottom to have iMovie optimize image's levels adaptively.
  
  
• Step 5: To create the effect you want, you can drag any sliders below.
  
  Exposure: Changes the shadows and highlights.
  
  Brightness: Change the light level.
  
  Contrast: Changes the relative contrast of light and dark tones.
  
  Saturation: Changes the color intensity of the clip.
  
  Saturation: Changes the color intensity of the clip.
  
  Red Gain, Green Gain, and Blue Gain: Changes the amount of red, green, and blue coloring.

If you change your mind, you can click Revert to Original to undo all changes you've made. Click Done when you achieve the effect you want.

How to Export iMovie Videos in HD Quality

If you created an iMovie project and everything is fine, but the video image get pixilated and blocked after exporting. You may be setting converting it to a low resolution format like MPEG-1 or low bit rate. Here are some tips to export a high quality video.

• If you export it to MPEG1, then you should adjust the bit rate higher to improve the output video quality. After export, you can then use an iMovie converter to convert the video to any other video format you want.
• If there is no strict requirement for the output file format and size, you can render as AVI or MOV. The file size will increase but you'll get much better quality.

In this article we share some tips and tricks to improve video quality in iMovie 9/10/11. You can get more iMovie useful tips to make your videos sparkle here.

Free Trial Version: 1.0.0.0	Free Trial Version: 2.0.0.1