Ken Burns and viewing full image

I am a very new Mac users as well as a new imovie user. I put all of my images on imovie to make a slideshow. I added music to the slideshow from itunes as well. I thought I was doing pretty good When I played the slideshow using the Ken Burns slideshow feature, the whole image was not visible. The image slowly moved on the screen but the whole image was never visible. It generally cut off the image before it was finished showing all of it. I hope this makes sense. How do I get the whole image to appear?
I did find the crop feature, and the boxes that say Start and End. When I tried this, it just made the image bigger and scanned the photo, never really showing the whole image all at once. I am quite confused.
Also, when I am finished with this slideshow, what is the easiest way to put it on a DVD as well as on Facebook.
I would appreciate any help that you can offer me! Thank you!

“...not use Ken Burns with vertically oriented photos...” -- WHAT!?!?!?!?!?! You’re kidding, right?
...I’m sorry, but personally, after Apple made the Ken Burn Effect completely USELESS for “portrait” oriented photos, I was both astonished and outraged, and have been hoping for a TRUE fix ever since. Sure, for video, later versions of iMovie do some nice things, but why on earth would Apple all of a sudden have made the Ken Burn Effect viable for only half of my photographs?!? I’ve created several DVD slideshows, most of them containing 80-90% still photos, and I am insulted by the suggestion that “padding” photographs (adding black to the sides of every “portrait” photo), via Automator or not, is the answer -- that is utter ridiculousness -- that feature should never have been removed in the first place!!! (ADD features Apple, don’t REMOVE them!!!) The only thing that would entice me to upgrade to iLife 11 would be having this simple, but to me, absolutely necessary functionality back.
...So, can you tell me if the Ken Burns Effect has been fixed in the latest iLife 11 version of iMovie to treat ALL photos equally?

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