Adding transitions in iDVD?

I'm making my first dvd and am having a slight problem with it. I have a slideshow from iPhoto that is in a .mov filetype with dimensions: 720x540. I want to add a title and fade in/fade out transitions but I don't want to diminish the quality of the video. What's the most effective way to do this?
I thought I would try adding my file into iMovie and adding the transitions there, then exporting into a .dv file but I can see that the quality goes down if I do it that way. Any other ideas? Can I add transitions directly into iDVD?
Thanks in advance!

F Shippey, I just created my first slideshow using
iMovie,(I had over 100 phooto's) using your
instructions from a previous question that you had
answered. Everything worked fine, but how do I get it
to repeat itself witout having to stop it and start
it again manually?.
JB
Select the slideshow in the map view and then select Advanced>Loop
F Shippey

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[End quote]
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----quote:
Movie slideshows tend to flicker with high-frequency images while "soft" images are OK.
So I did a quick test to see how the input image's resolution and blurring affects the output quality of those high-frequency images.
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3. original bicubically resampled to 640x480
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5. original with 1 pixel Gaussian blur. This blurs horizontally approximately as much as the 3 pixel Motion blur, but it blurs the image also vertically.
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1. 2048x1536 flickered very badly with and without Ken Burns
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- iMovie should blur the images so they wouldn't flicker on a TV. Applying a small Gaussian blur to the input images seems like a good workaround.
- Using Photo To Movie, Toast, Still Life and PhotoMagico and other 3rd party utilities are good alternatives, too.
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