Poor photo quality in finished i movie

Hi,
I have just completed an i movie project that contains video and many still photos imported from i photo.
These photos were scanned in at 200 dpi - probably would have been better at 300 - but what's done is done. Now that the movie is burned to i dvd, the photos are grainy and noisy.
Do you have any advice that could help the quality - shy of rescanning and redoing the entire project?
thanks.

Yes there's a big difference between what you see on the iMovie screen and the TV screen. It usually looks better on TV but way cropped. Dang!
If you have a iMovie compatible digital camcorder with analog to digital pass-through (such as my Canon ZR40 and others) you can monitor it through the TV as you edit to see what it will look like. The signal can pass both ways.
Connect the camcorder to the mac by firewire (dv). Connect the camcorder to the TV using the S-Video (if it has it) or compostite video connection and L/R audio out. I know some newer camcorders don't have S-Video in/out but they should at least have composite, i hope, otherwise ya can't do it. I don't know about the other makes but that's why I like the Canon camcorders from 3 or 4 years ago (ZR40,45,50,60,65etc) -- they had the inputs and outputs needed like firewire(dv), svideo, compostite video, audio in/out, mic input, headphone output, and the all-important analog-digital/digital-analog pass through without having to record it to tape.
Open iMovie and in Preferences under Playback check the box that says "Play DV project video through to DV camera" (a "minor" detail I was overlooking myself until recently). When you turn the camera on and start working in iMovie it should play through to the TV.
Sometimes instead of the TV I connect the camcorder to the DVD Recorder (S-video) and record straight from the mac through the camcorder to DVD-R in the 1 hour XP mode on the set top recorder. Even though it goes analog it comes out better than iDVD or Toast at their highest settings and you don't have to take all that time encoding and burning. Only drawback no fancy menus just whatever ones the DVD Recorder has.

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