iMovie 9.0.9 exporting low quality resolution even with 1080 Share option

Thank you so much for the reply. The pants in the photo are supposed to be black. I am exporting with "Share", "Export Movie", HD 1080p. I am now also having problems importing the photos I am using in these videos, they are now importing with this same problem (pictured above.) So, it is not simply an Export issue. I dragged this photo into the timeline and it appeared with the discoloration, exactly the same as with the Export issue.

Hi again, I was on the phone with Apple and we did some tests with a 2nd computer and figured out that the OS had nothing to do with the problem. I eventually may have come across the solution, which is mind-blowing if it works, so I will take the next week to re-edit the 20 minute video and then be back in touch. My video is composed of high resolution photographs. The issue relates to importing the photos as well at this juncture, but, generally speaking, I'm composing the video and exporting it, any previously color corrected photos are not maintained, including photos I corrected within the iMovie program. In the export I discovered, that any images I had applied a hard light filter to (each film strip has a settings button to open up to make clip adjustments and video adjustments), maintained its quality in the export. I have not yet checked to see if the other available video filters would hold the quality, but I will assume they will. So, if one applies a video effect to the image, it will be maintained for the export. I will re-edit and see if it works, fingers crossed. So far, every image with the hard light filter has held its quality, it is the unfiltered images that are terrible. If you know anything about this, please write back, thank you!

So grateful for the information. Would it be better to try to find an earlier version of iMovie? How do I revert back to 9.0.4, which I have backed-up and still running on my MacBook (which I do not video edit on.)?

Using hard light filters for all of my images doesn't seem to be a good long term solution. I looked at a photo that I had put a "romantic" filter on and that had the color noise quite prevalent. The hard light filter seems to be covering up the noise. Do older iMovie versions WORK without these poor quality export (and import) issues? I also cannot find anywhere to download 10 versions (definitely not available on Apple,) and I wouldn't know if that would be a good solution. I wouldn't want to keep developing work with this problem and there do not seem to be any editing programs I can locate (that would be safe downloads) for my OS. Thanks!