From iPhoto to iMovie

I have created a slideshow in iPhoto, but would like to edit (add music/sound effects) that I can't manage in iPhoto. So I have been investigating iMovie.
First Question: After several tries, I have concluded that I can't move an entire slideshow from iPhoto to iMovie. To create in iMovie I have to start over again by dragging individual photos from the library that appears when I click on media>photos. Am I right?
Second Question: What do I have to do to make the photos from my iPhoto library 'fit' the window in iMovie? I have read some of the recent and archived posts on blurry and ragged edged results, but these discussions don't really help with my problem. I have moved only a few and so far the edges are fine and the sharpness looks OK. My problem is that I lose some of the pictutre from both top to bottom and side to side. Is there any cure for this?
Sauble

I had the same problems, the top and the bottom are like black, so i used the ken burns effects, just play with it. Make the picture bigger with it, you can have it start and end at the same place and you can move the picture in the window, like move it down or more centered. Looks fine in iMovie.

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http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
which is free, but you must also have the Apple mpeg2 plugin :
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
(unless you are running Lion in which case see below))
which is a mere $20.
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Obviously the foregoing only applies to DVDs you have made yourself, or other home-made DVDs that have been given to you. It will NOT work on copy-protected commercial DVDs, which in any case would be illegal.
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OK you can leave them in iPhoto and access them from the iMovie Event for iPhoto.
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3) Select all the clips in the iPhoto finder window that are part of this event and Move them to the Movies/iMovie Event/(Event Name) folder.
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I have successfully imported from iphoto in the recent past on the same computer, but can't figure out what I'm doing wrong this time.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3290
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ok, here's the deal. I have about 1tb of videos(in raw iphone straight to iphoto format), about 3k of them. I took a few vids a day for a year or so. They are all in iphoto right now but i need to take each days vids and put them together and export that in a smaller format. I need to do that for each day of the year. But it's a nightmare trying to get the vids from iphoto to imovie. Is there an easy way? I don't want to do major work to them, i just want to put them all together and have 1 vid file. So say I have 3 vids on jan 1st in iphoto, I need to move all 3 to another app, put them together, export the single file, keeping as much of the quality as I can, then I can delete the original raw vids and move that single file back to iphoto.
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Regards
TD

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Hi L
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Click to view full size
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Click to view full size
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