IMovie picture question

I am using iMovie 2011, and have many pictures to add to the movie, is there a way to expand the window that the pictures are in to select from and make the pictures bigger in size? My eyes aren't as good as they should be.

You can change the size of pics in any photo editing software - I don't know of a way in iMovie (and have never used iMovie to make a slideshow; I use third party software for that). In any case, in general, please remember that you can easily make pictures smaller without any loss of quality; however, increasing the size will result in less than desirable results - they will become pixelated. Is there a way for future pictures to be taken in a higher resolution to begin with in your camera - that way, they'd be large to begin with and, as I said, it's easy to make them smaller.

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Hi Travis - welcome to the forum!
Unfortunately I'm not familiar with the PC editing apps, but iMovie does not have the key-frame feature you refer to.
iMovie has more than one way to edit clips - either direct trimming (which you describe), or cropping, splitting etc using the play-head.
By changing Preferences you can import direct to the Timeline, or into the Clips Pane, and import as discrete clips, or without breaks.
For your purpose, I would import to the Clips Pane, then Option-Drag them to the Timeline or Clips Viewer. This will leave a duplicate set in the Clips Pane.
Now 'slash and burn' the clips on the timeline as much as you need to make your highlight mini-movie, add title etc, THEN drag the whole un-modified set of clips onto the timeline. You now have two movies in one. That can be made into a DVD as is.
If you want them SEPARATE, you could cut and paste the highlight movie to a new project.
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Is there anyway to delete those originals without manually going through original directory and comparing the files to the modified directory???
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