IMovie Photo Slideshow -- photos `flicker' when played

I have been working on a photo slideshow in iMovie '08 for a couple of days. Everything has been fine, but all of a sudden today, nearly a quarter of the photos seem to flicker or jump when they come up during the show. The `jump' only lasts a fraction of a second and then goes into the Ken Burns effect I set up.
I have it set up for each photo to be on screen for 3 seconds. Any ideas or thoughts on this would be appreciated.

i am experiencing this as well. the weird thing is i have made 4 image slideshows in iMovie and the first 3 i made are fine. i came back and made a fourth and it has the "jump" in the image as it changes images.
it looks like the original image is being displayed initially and the repositioned as specified in iMovie.
any help is greatly appreciated!
chuck

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