IMovie and photo cropping problems!!

Hello!
I am making a slideshow for my Grandpa's memorial service, and have many photos where I have placed a title directly on the picture so that they are clear to people watching (year, people in it, etc.)
Here's the problem:
iMovie crops every photo so that in many cases, the titles I placed on the pictures aren't visible!
BTW - the KB effect is turned off, and all photos were imported without the effect.
I have played around with placing the photos on different sized canvasses to see, when imported, which dimensions come the closest to fitting correctly on the iMovie screen. It seems like putting the photo on a 6.5"x4" canvas works best to deal with portraits (gets the whole top and bottom in, leaving black lines on the sides), but I'm wondering if anyone has more definitive information about what size photo can be imported without being cropped. I've got 200 pics to deal with, and if I'm going to resize all of the canvasses, I only want to do it once!!!
Thx in advance for your help!

Hi, Ben
I didn't get your response until after I had played around with the pics some more.
Brilliant minds think alike, though, and I ended up doing basically what you did, using a 1920x1440 canvas (can't remember the inches, and no access to it on this computer).
Just for the record, even with the KB effect turned off, the settings were cropping the photos a little bit because of it (the default import setting for the KB effect was at 1.16, and even with the KB effect off, it was still affecting the photos). When I changed that setting to 1.0, it did make a difference, but putting the photos on a blank canvas and resaving them was really what worked!
Sorry everyone who replied - I tried to give you "helpfuls" and a "solved" for Ben, but my computer keeps giving me an error message!!!
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