Issues in iMovie with turning photos into a video to be exported.

Hi all,
Currently working on my iPad solo as I travel around and am having trouble with imported photos from my dsl camera being cropped in iMovie.
I spent a fair amount of time trying to stop the ken burns effect, which I have managed to do. Following the help. However because these photos were not taken on iPad I am suspecting that they're cropped to some ratio.
Essentially what I am trying to do is turn about 100 of my photos into a short movie, which just flicks through photos fairly quickly. I have managed to do this to sp,e degree, however iMovie just shows only the top left hand corner of the photo not the whole image. Ive tried zooming out to the whole extent of the photo, however this hasn't worked. The particular photos I have initially worked with are in portrait.
If you need anymore info on what I've tried or am trying to do please ask
Thanks for any help to what I think is a pretty simple problem.
Cheers.
Do

Sadly iMovie iOS does not allow letterbox or Pillarbox of photos.
What this means is that you can only zoom to the shortest width or height.
That means it cuts off part of the image if it isn't 16:9, as you've discovered.
I suggest you use a different app to create your movie, essentially a slideshow app will do it better.
I have suggested a fix to Apple before, but please also ask them to change this:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/imovie_ios.html
It won't be fixed in a hurry though.
I don't know of any apps that can create movies of photos sorry.
I have used Splice (there is a free version) but I think this is not a native iPad app.
It can create 4:3 videos, and I believe that it can show full photos; not cropping.
I suggest you ask in the main iPhone forum for apps that can create movies of photos, and explain that you want them to be shown full, with black bars if needed.
Hopefully someone else knows of a better app to create your movie.
The only last alternative is to edit the photos in a photo app to have the correct aspect, and have black bars.
But this would be just the slowest and silliest option.
Sorry there is no easy answer for you.

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