Cannot transition into "Ken Burns" effect

Simple.
I have a Ken Burns zoom on a photo. I want to fade in from black onto the photo.
At the point where the fade-in ends, there is a jump in the photo instead of a smooth transition.
This must be a software glitch in this version.

Hi Mary
Don't know of the problem but I can suggest how I would solve it.
I would - before applying fade in or out - export out the Ken-Burns zoomed
photos to a new miniDV tape and then import this part again and try to apply
the Fade effect on this one.
alt. Save clips as a full quality QT (DV-stream) clip and re-import this.
It should work even if it is a rather crude way of doing it.
Yours Bengt W

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I have been reading other posts about sharing from iMovie to iDVD. Am I understanding correctly >that I the largest size I can go to is 'medium'? In my experiments, I have been choosing 'large' and >they look OK. (I chose 'large' because that was what was modelled in the tutorial.) Would I have >trouble when it comes to burning them?
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it almost feels like the effect speeds up as it pans over the photo, then jumps to the next one and speeds up again. i
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It helps to use slow zooms/pans. It also helps to add a transition between the clips, which covers the first second or so and helps eliminate the sense of acceleration. Another solution is to set the clip duration a second or two longer than you really need, then trim off the end.
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions. As TD pointed out, making a QT movie file of a slideshow involves rendering which is then encoded once again in iDVD. IMO, the best image quality for a slideshow is obtained when you create the slideshow entirely within iDVD. Of course there's no KB effect.
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