Blurry pictures when slide show is played:(

I am making a slideshow on iMovie and I have pictures in it as well as videos. When I play the movie in full screen or normal screen the pictures appear blurry, but if I pause it they will return to the original resolution and they are clear. This is only happening with the pictures. If I just scroll over the pictures with the mouse they appear fine as well. How do I fix this? Thanks!

This is usually caused by the fact that your pics are much higher resolution than video clips i.e. even if your video is 1920x1080 your pics may well be 3000x2000 or more. IMovie(depending on your computer and graphics power) can't resolve the large pics to their fullest at 24 or30 fps. In FCP X we can adjust for that but I don't see any way in iMovie. I think you will find that when you share/export your movie the pics will be nice and clear.

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