I want no movement on stills in imovie 9

Sorry if this is blindingly simple, I want to make a movie mainly of stills. When I import them from iphoto the stills play with an automatic pan and tilt movement. I'd like to have no automatic movement, adding my own when necessary. Can anyone help, ta Frank

This is called the Ken Burns Effect. You can change this for individual pictures using the Crop,Rotate,Ken Burns Tool.
You can set the default action for how imovie handles new photos added to the project by going to FILE/PROJECT PROPERTIES. Set initial photo placement to FIT (which will letterbox if necessary) or CROP which will cut off the sides to make the aspect ratio fit your project, if necessary, rather than choosing Ken Burns.

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All - iMovie - all versions, FinalCut, Adobe Premiere etc etc
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