How to get Ken Burns effect to zoom out so the whole pic is visible

I want to start or end with the full pic in view - just as the FIT command does.
Then I want Ken Burns to Zoom/pan to make it interesting.
But I can't figure out how to re-size the frame beyond the 4:3 (or whatever is restricting it) ratio.
Tried dragging the frame edges with CTRL, ALT, SHIFT, and COMMAND. Nothing seems to release the constraint.
Thanks in advance.

I want to start or end with the full pic in view - just as the FIT command does.
If by "Fit" you mean the image exactly matches the display area, then you would have to "pre-crop" your scan to one of the available aspect ratios either before or after making your scan. If by "Fit" you mean "letterbox" or "pillar" views, then as Appleman said, you would have to either use the mentioned automator action or almost any graphic application. I prefer the manual approach so I can add a "text" area, frame, texture the background and/or image, and/or create other special effects.
But, how do I zoom the view out past the edges of the photo? If I press the FIT button in KB effect, it does it. But I loose the ability to zoom/pan... Unless there is some trick to getting KB effect to start or end with a FITted picture?
There isn't. iMovie '08 automatically scales the content to make the smallest dimension "fit within" the display area and, therefore, does not allow the "over-zoom" effect of "fitting" the larger dimension within the display area. You can however do this in iMovie HD. So if you want the "built-in" capability, this is a case where you should be using the the older application -- otherwise you will have to letterbox/pillar the content to get iMovie '08 to "Fit" your image as you wish.

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    There should be two buttons: KBE on for all, another KBE off for all. KBE off would allow the user to select which photos KBE is confined to.
    It's that point which makes me wonder if you've misunderstood something important. The Ken Burns settings we apply in iMovie do NOT control how the movie PLAYS in iMovie, at least not directly, like it does in iPhoto (and other slideshow software). The KB settings control how a clip is RENDERED when the photo is imported to iMovie. Once rendered, that clip is FIXED unless we re-render (Update) it. Changing its Ken Burns settings changes the clip ONLY if we re-render the clip.
    Another way to think about it is that the Ken Burns Effect affects how a photo is imported. Once imported, it does not affect how it plays.
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    There's no pollution of anything. For the reasons I mentioned earlier, the settings do NOT change anything about existing photos or clips until you Apply those settings, which (usually) causes iMovie to re-render the clip.
    Try to re-think how Ken Burns works, where you assume iMovie is creating video, not just a series of images it plays in sequence. Those are two very different things.
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