IMovie 6.0.3 drops jpg resolution

When moving jpg stills from Photos panel to the timeline, they get limited to 117 KB. In fact some 1- 2 MB jpegs were dropped to 117kB as I brought them to the Photos panel. How was that done? Can I keep a higher image quality?
Then if I change duration or Ken Burns on a still picture in the timeline, the image resolution gets very blurry. It seems to happen with my pressing of the 'Update' button in the Show Photo Settings window. The size stays at 117kB. How can I adjust duration or do a KBurns and keep decent image resolution?
In general, do I have any control over these image resolutions in iMovie 6.0.3?

Your question concerns iMovie 6. This is a iMovie '09 forum (iMovie 8). Please post your question again in the iMovie HD 6 forum.
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