How do I fix quality of photos in iMovie from iPhoto?

I am a first time poster here and I'm not very technical with computers but if someone could please explain this to me simply I'd be very appreciative. When trying to make a slideshow from pictures I took, with all the effects and such in iMovie, I'm trying to use pictures that I have in iphoto but they turn out to be not the quality that they appear in iphoto. I use an Olympus C-720 digital camera if that helps. They appear clear in iphoto and once in imovie they are "pixely" and look like when you take a small picture and try and blow it up a lot. Is there an easy way to make it so the pictures are the original quality? I'd appreciate any help. Thanks.

Hi Monty:
Welcome to the iMovie forum.
When you import your photos into an iMovie project set up for standard NTSC video, the resolution is roughly 640 x 480, in most cases much less resolution than your camera took the image and as displayed in iPhoto.
The imported images can look even worse than the 640 x 480 resolution depending on your playback preview settings, however, the images should look just fine on a TV.
Is your project standard video or HD?
Cheers,
David
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