Ken Burns Effect Portrait Photo iMovie 08

Hello...
I'm trying to make a slideshow of photos in iMovie 08. In an older version of iMovie, I was able to apply the Ken Burns Effect on both landscape and portrait oriented photographs. In iMovie 08, the landscape photos are fine, but i'm having a problem on the portrait oriented ones. The red and green bars in the Ken Burns Effect only select a portion of the portrait oriented photos, so you only see a small section of the photo when using the effect. Please help.
Thanks,
Lauren

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You can pad black space on the left and right in your photos using an application like Photoshop. so that the Ken Burns will pan over the entire photo
There is also a program called Automator which comes with your Mac. Automator has a "Pad Images" action which will add the black space to vertically oriented photos. With automator, you can batch any number of vertically oriented photos and pad them all at once.

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