How do I remove Ken Burns effect from individual photos?

The instructions say to " In the Photo Settings window, deselect the Ken Burns effect checkbox and then click apply". My interface shows the word "update" instead of "apply" which has worked when I change other settings such as the length of time a photo is displayed. However every time I deselect KB...it comes back! I have also tried to constantly save the project, trying to save the deselect process.
Has anyone an idea? BTW the KB effect is very poor for most vertical pictures as it will cut off the top of the photo.
powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9) iMovie 6.0.3 version

• Yes, the Photo Settings window says Update instead
of Apply because you are updating an existing clip,
not importing a new one.
However every time I deselect KB...it comes back!
• Not sure exactly what you mean there. Do you mean
that in spite of unchecking the Ken Burns checkbox
the Updated clip doesn't change? It still has the Ken
Burns effect?
YES - see solution I found below.
If so, it sounds like iMovie may be failing to save
the updated clip to disk. That can occur if the
project resides on an external disk that uses the
wrong disk format. iMovie requires the Mac OS
Extended disk format. To check yours, see this:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=41
76921#4176921
I had our office software person check this out.
BTW the KB effect is very poor for most vertical
pictures as it will cut off the top of the photo.
• The Ken Burns effect can't read our minds. It only
does what we tell it to do. For photos that have a
portrait orientation it's normal to adjust the
zoom/pan so the rendered clip stays within the photo.
Note that it's possible to drag the photo in the
Preview window to adjust both the Start and End
points. So for a tall photo you may want to zoom/pan
up-or-down instead of side-to-side.
Note too that the settings in the Photo Settings
window always accept those settings of the last photo
we imported, updated or clip clicked on. So once
you've imported a tall photo with the Ken Burns
settings you like, you can easily apply those
settings for another photo. Just click on that
previously-rendered tall clip in the Timeline before
importing your next tall photo.
Karl
Karl,
Thank your for your input and in the last couple of days I have been able to produce the iMovie. But I now have another question about burning it.
Let me point out that I was able to deal with the Ken Burns issues by deleting the photos I wanted to change and replacing with new photos and using your tips + the help menu on "adding motion to your photos" to zooming right / left / vertically (which was very helpful).
Now that I have my project I cannot burn it as I get the following:there is not enough space to encode the aspects and in the pull down: "iDVD needs 2.350 GB of disk space to encode the remaining assets, but only 1.231 GB are available" I tried to cut down the files by deleting 5 chapters thus reducing the menu to one page showing chapters. I also re-saved the project with a new name.
BTW - I did burn it once but needed to fix it as the opening menu didn't have sound and I saw some other small photo details I wanted to fix. This version had 11 chapters on 2 menu pages with photos in the background. Essentially all I did was add a few more photos in motion and add the sound. That is why I thought maybe it was too much and removed the chapters saving one remaining page with music. I also do not have it on wide screen format as that uses more memory.
Can you help me with this? I don't understand why I'm getting the same message no matter what I do.
Many thanks,
Rozy

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