Ken Burns Effect - OFF!!!

I just imported about 45 pics into iMovie and they all came imported with the Ken Burns effect and I did not want it all on of them. I mean, every couple of pictures it's cool, but the same effect one after the other is beyond boring.
When I tried to select them all and turn it off it "sort of" worked. It turned the effect off (or so I thought) but then the picture has this major jumpy action that it takes on. When it previews a clip where KBfx has been turned off it zooms in for a split second and then JUMPS to final full version of the picture. Not the look I was going for...
Any suggestions?? Especially on turning thing off so that the pics are imported with that feature.
Thanks so much!

When I tried to select them all and turn it off it
"sort of" worked. It turned the effect off (or so I
thought) but then the picture has this major jumpy
action that it takes on. When it previews a clip
where KBfx has been turned off it zooms in for a
split second and then JUMPS to final full version of
the picture. Not the look I was going for...
The Ken Burns Effect user interface takes some getting used to. Sometimes it appears to have a mind of its own. It doesn't, actually, but you have to figure out why it's doing what it's doing.
• A crucial feature is that the displayed Ken Burns settings, and the miniature KB preview window, reflect the SELECTED CLIP. That means that if you configure the settings you want, THEN select a clip, the settings will switch to what they were when you imported that clip.
So... to change a previously-imiported clip you have to FIRST select it, THEN change the KB settings.
• When you select a clip, the Ken Burns preview window always does its dance, all on its own, if the checkbox was on when you imported the photo. You have to pause for that dance to finish before you change the KB settings. If you don't wait for the dance to finish, you'll probably accidentally set the wrong thing. Although you've intended to set the Start setting, for example, you will probably have set the End setting. That happens because, on its own, the dance has activated the End setting.
• When you've figured out how all that works, there's one more hurdle.
If the KB checkbox was off when you imported the photo, KB will fail to display the settings of the selected clip in the timeline. Depending on what those settings were, the Update button will create a clip that's not at all what you want. If the photo was imported with a pan or zoom, for example, updating the clip without manually resetting the KB settings will create quite a mess.
It's a bug. It doesn't happen when the KB checkbox is ON when the photo was imported.
• One final thing. It's not obvious how to re-set the pan and zoom to 1.00 (no pan and zoom.) The trick is to click on the Start half of the Start/End thingy, wait for the dance to finish, then click on it again, then drag the zoom slider a bit to the right, then all the way left. Repeat for the End half of the Start/End thingy. Now both the zoom and the pan are centered.
I know, Apple didn't use the A Team when they designed this user interface.
Karl

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