Having trouble making a high-quality slideshow from iPhoto (pic)

[volcs0]

I don't remember having this much trouble in the past.

The slideshow looks excellent in iPhoto, but when I try to export it to iDVD or build it in iMovie, it loses color. The same thing happened when I tried Fotomagico. I tried making the iMovie movie HD1080, but that only increased the resolution - the color problem remains.

See example below of the pic in iMovie before import into the timeline and after. See how "dull" the second pic is?

Any ideas?

[Don Kiyoti]

I don't know what's causing the loss of quality when you export. But the original photo is very underexposed. You might play with that in iPhoto before sending it to your slide show.

A kind of sloppy workaround might be to create dupes of the photos you want to export, and then boost the contrast & saturation to make them really punchy and use those for the slide show.

[DRR]

I'm guessing when you export to iDVD it's encoding it as MPEG2 for DVD. As you know, MPEG2 is a lossy compression format. That coupled with the fact that NTSC is a much smaller color space than RGB, and that should explain your loss of color,

[volcs0]

No - what I'm seeing is right in iMovie.

When I look at the picture in the preview pane, it looks fine. When I drag it to the time line, it looks faded and like crap.

I can't figure it out.