Transitions & Image Quality: How to Improve?

I have created an iMovie out of slides with fade in & fade out transitions between slides.
The issue is that the fade in/out image looks crisper and more clear than the images from which the transitions are derived.
In fact you can see the slide go "out of focus" or blurry when the fade in transition ends or become clearer when the fade out transition begins.
This effect is carried over to iDVD as well.
Any suggestions welcome and appreciated.
Thanks
MP

Hi Michael - yes, you are strongly advised when importing stills, to check the Ken Burns box in the Photos Pane, even if you are not using the zoom/pan effect. Photos rendered by KB are better quality than letting iMovie render them before exporting to iDVD.
See here - especially read the post by Karl Petersen:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=196734&tstart=0
There have been extended discussions on this topic, which as Karl says, can be found by searching the forum (my own quick links to them have been lost due to the new forum structure!).

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