i'd like to use snapz pro to capture some movies of my desktop (demonstrating some functions) -- however later i want to edit my snapz pro movie together with some actual dv camera recording in imovie.

what resolution would you suggest for capturing the desktop stuff with snapz pro so that i get maximum quality?

ideally i'd like to be able to render the finished imovie in at least two resolutions: one full res version for quicktime that i'll burn to dvd-rom, and one lower res version that would be postable on the web.

i'm worried about the lo-res version being ugly because imovie is probably going to scale it quite a bit.

and i heard somebody say that imovie doesn't give you much leeway with dimensions, so if i don't capture the snapz pro movie right, it's going to resize/stretch it for me.

so what res should i use for snapz pro movie capture?

Hello-
I'm not sure which resolution would yield the best results to be frank. My suggestion is to start at the highest resolution and work from there.

The biggest issue with video quality is going to be when you import the .mov created by SP X into iMovie. iMovie uses a DV stream, and your .mov file is going to be converted to that format when you import it into iMovie. Unfortunately the two formats are very different, down to even pixel shape, so the resulting movie, which will look great in the QuickTime Player, is going to degrade considerably when viewed after editing in iMovie.