IPHOTO QT STILLS VS iMOVIE KB STILLS

If a slide show is preparred in iPhoto using KB effect to reduce jaggies, then the slide show is exported as a QT movie, then imported into iMovie, then iMovie dragged into iDVD to get the best quality-how will the stills compare to importing the stills directly into iMovie and applying the KB effect, then dragging the iMovie into iDVD?
Thank you in advance for your time,
Art

All,
Karl has really cleared some of my fog around this issue with this great post:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2105598&#2105598
We may have to burn a DVD or two to see what the stills actually look like when they are played back on the TV, but the iMovie still rendering "bug" he identifies is the root cause of "jaggies" that become included in iMovie stills and eventually find their way to iDVD.
Net:
(1) Photo stills from iPhoto (with or without a KB effect, slideshow or not) will never look very good when iMovie plays them back because iMovie is an editor tool first and a playback tool second (it refuses to show all the still quality during playback no matter what our preferences indicate). This was one of the main things misleading me...
(2) Therefore, stills will look better viewed on a TV (from a DVD or tape) than they do in iMovie.
(3) This will only be true, however, if we always prevent iMovie from rendering the stills on the way through the iDVD encoding process to the TV.
(4) Poor iMovie still rendering is the "bug" Karl describes and the workarounds to avoid it are to either: (a) import all stills with a KB effect (they become movies and iMovie won't attempt to render them), or, (b) if you have stills that do not have the KB effect, then the Share --> iDVD command needs to be bypassed altogether by dragging the iMovie project name in the title bar right into the iDVD window (to do this I found that I had to hold down the mouse button momentarily until the title icon darkened before I began to drag).
Now I'll need to do some tests...
Great post Karl!
Cheers,
Al
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