Creating Broadcast Quality Photos

I'm going to be broadcasting my iMovie production on the local cable network and will be using a variety of photos (ken burns effect) in the project.
What are the optimal settings in terms of dimensions (height/width) and resolution for creating an effective viewer experience on TV?
Thanks!

My thumb role is:
NTSC: 720 x 480 and I scann about 1.5 times more and
let iPhoto or iMovie
adjust it = WITH NO ZOOMING AT ALL.
PAL: 768 x 576 - likevice.
If You zoom You have to recalculate.
- My lazy day I scann slides (35mm) to 18Mb files
2048x3096 -
Yours Bengt W
Thanks for sharing you experience Bengt. I'm pretty new at all this so I have a another question.
I'm intending to take my photos with a digital camera at its maximum resolution of 2048 x 1536 (4:3 aspect ratio) and import those pictures into iphoto and then into iMovie.
Will this process give iMovie the pixels it needs to do a moderate size ken burns and still get good quality?
Thanks for your help?
core duo Mac OS X (10.4.6)
core duo Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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What project settings do I use to create broadcast quality television in a widescreen format. Note I use a mac book and also I'm in NZ so we use PAL. I'm only using animation and still pictures so haven't got any video to import.
I work for a charity museum and my boss has asked me (last minute) to make the ad as we have no money for a professional studio. I'm used to making videos for exhibits only.
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Use the PAL DV Widescreen preset.
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Just got my MacBook last week, everything was fine until I tried to learn more.
I have created a new iphoto library, creating some additional login names, do some settings to expose/spaces....
Now I have faced some problems:
1. RAW file could no longer be edited
2. RAW file opened appears very blur
3. RAW file opened cannot be seen after flipping forward and backward to other phots (appear as white screen in window format, appears as black screen in full screen mode)
I am wondering whether could this be related to some settings that I have set unintentionally?
Additional questions:
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TD
I was exploring and trying to create a new library, I first drag the original 'photo library' to 'document' folder in the Hard Disk and rename it, then create a new photo library and drag back my 1st library into iphoto. when restarting iphoto, hold down the option key and select to open in the 1st library (the one renamed)
other than that didnt do any thing else.
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When you mentioned 'elements', do you mean the photo inside?
Called up applecare, was guided:
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Although imovie 6 is caught up with a sum of disadvantages of imovie
5, I observe a new disadvantage which did not exist before.
With knowknowing:
In the "multi-media" mitre + "photographs", when I import
a photograph from iphoto, I observe that the image which is transcribed
in the screen of the visual display of imovie 6 is of a perfect
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There are somebody in the specialists or the helpers who can give me explanations and how to cure that,
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Hi pierre - here are some more useful references:
Still Photo Quality in iMovie:
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_aMacintosh.html#slideshow
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=961100&#961100
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=971053&#971053
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=961093&#961093
and maybe especially:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=245638&tstart=0
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?[email protected]@.68be025d/13
and from Karl Petersen – to create Best Quality Still Pic for iMovie:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1921544#1921544
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I apologize for posting this question here, but I did a search and found in one thread that nobody goes to the Compressor forum and they all post here.
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