Ken burns limitation

I am organizing a slideshow with iMovie importing photos form iPhoto.
When I try to decide about Ken Burns effect:
1. are the frames fixed in height to width ratio to the choice of the screen or can it be set to a free format by some option?
2. Is really the maximum limit of the frames defined by the height of the photo?
I would like to be able tu use frames that would go beyond the limits of the phots and use the screen color as background. Is there a way to do this as it is done in the Preferences screensaver?
Working with iLife'08, iPhoto and iMovie 7.1.4 on MacBook 15" Mac OS 10.4.11

iMovie08 is meant as a very simple tool for producing fast some ...projects.
limits in KB is indeed a fix aspect ratio of 4:3/16:9 and the others you mentioned...
but...
pre-processing the pic in some other, designated pic processor allows some tricks..
http://karsten.schluter.googlepages.com/im08_compo
same, if you like to see a single still (e.g. in portrait) on some background - prepare that in any paint/pic proc. BEFORE usage in iM08.
here some other 'effects' for stills in iM08
http://karsten.schluter.googlepages.com/accents
or even make a still alive..
http://karsten.schluter.googlepages.com/piccomesalive
(ok, that is for iMHD6 and a video, no still.....)
consider usage of designated 3rd party tools as PhotoMagico http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/overview/

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