IMovie 08? How Do I Do Effects on Clips?

Can anyone tell me how I can do slow mo, or old movie look with this "version" of iMovie -
This is not and upgrade to iMovie, and please don't say i should've read the packaging. They called it iMovie 7. If you have LipBuster version 6, and I give you LipBuster version 7, you expect it to be an upgraded version of LipBuster. You should be able to accomplish everything in 7, that you were able to do in 6, only maybe in a different way or something.
You see gentle readers, I was fully (since it is called iMovie) expecting a ramped up version of iMovie. I have spent more time in the help menu and internet trying to find out how to do slo-mo, effects, and etc. Haven't found out how to do that, so please point out to me how to do that. If 6 can do it, 7 should do it even better, shouldn't it?
Please understand, for what it is, I do like it. And it works well. And the multi tracks, and capabilities of the timeline are still there, just represented differently, watch the tuturoials, and read the help menu.

Ron--unfortunately, iMovie '08 (7) lost a bunch of features from iMovie HD. For example, your slo-mo/reverse/fast is gone. iMovie 7 is, in my opinion, pretty good if you want to create a movie in 30 min, just like the ad says. But if you want to create the same movies like you did in iMovie HD, you better stay with that one.
I am staying with iMovie HD, even thought I have installed iLife '08 to get the better version of iDVD (better quality DVDs). Apple posted iMovie HD 6.0.4 on its website for download, which now works without iLife '06 (previous version was 6.0.3).
Hope this helps.

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Whenever a slideshow is created in iPhoto and than exported to iDVD (or via being a quicktime movie through iMovie into iDVD) the result will be however stunning. But that totally defeats the purpose of iMovie and the degree of freedom of designing slidehows in a very appealing manner.....
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(before you resize, find out about how to properly resize and rescale an image!!!!)
I am slightly annoyed that I found that out after producing a long long long long and really good slightshow, that is watchable but looks REALLY cheasy and cheap).
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Even with no Ken Burns, the sharp images tend to flicker on a TV because iMovie doesn't blur them properly.
And as you very well described, iMovie's Ken Burns produces uneasy zooms/pans because the subpixel rendering is, uh, suboptimal.
iMovie's immortal rendering bug when exporting non-Ken Burns'ed images to iDVD/tape doesn't make things any better.
Yes, bicubically downsampling the input images to 640x480 or adding gaussian blur to the megapixel input images takes care of the flicker and uneasy zooms/pans, but as a side-effect the maximal zoom-ins are then TOO blurry.
The best workaround is to use Photo To Movie's higher quality export setting. It has the best quality rendering engine (I recently compared it to Still Life and FotoMagico). Disclaimer: I'm just a satisfied customer of Photo To Movie.
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