Ken Burns and portrait pictures

I'm doing my first slideshow. iPhoto 5.0.4 and 23" screen. Full screen is
all right, for landscape pictures, that is (even when they are cropped).
By default, portraits are scaled as to "fill the height", that means big black
columns at left & right.
Setting "Scale photos to fill screen" nicely eliminates these black columns but
the heads and feet of people are now cropped.
I've learned that one can set pan and zoom attributes for a single photo or group of photos manually.
If you set the initial zoom so that the picture fills the width, then adjusts the start/end points for pannng (to save heads or feet, whichever are more important :-)), then things work all right.
My only problem is that I'll have to do this for every new roll. I think that
this "algorithm" above should be the default behaviour for fill-screen mode.
Perhaps I am missing something. Is it possible to ask for such a behaviour?
Is there a quirky setup option to this end hidden somewhere?
Miklos

Hi Miklos,
You are doing it the right way. Very good for you!
I take all my photos in landscape mode so I don't have to go through what you are doing.
There is no other option to make this default that I know of. Maybe someone else here has figured out a faster solution.
Lori

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