Thanks for the followup Brenda. So iM'09 is broken with respect to frame-rate adjustments of clips. That is very useful info. Rich On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:05:00
Hi to all; Just thought I'd let you know that I solved the problem, and that, as per the apple discussion boards, my problem is by no way unique. See below:
... I'm skeptical of these supposed quality loss issues. That is not the core of your problem, but it might be part of the answer. The quickest solution
To force a movie to open in QuickTime 7, drag your movie file onto its application icon. I added it to my Dock, next to QTX, and often drag files to it there
I did the conversion to avoid the resolution loss with iMovie 09 and DV... Converting to Photo-jpeg fools iMovie into not deinterlacing. I had already captured