Ken Burns reverts to nil in iPhoto 11 ver 9.1

I'm making a slide show from an album. I set the Ken Burns effect in individual slides and it plays correctly when I preview it but a few slides later or if I quit for lunch and restart some of the effects remain but many have disappeared and the effect box is no longer checked. Most disappointing! Are there any suggestions or do I just wait til Apple gets it right.
Jake

Sadly not an solution. But an answer that took me some time to work out
i upgraded from iphoto 9 to iphoto 11. I have several saved slideshows. When I opened the saved slideshows in iphoto11 some of the Ken Burns effects were lost (some turned out to be Ken Burns effects on a landscape photos). I tried to add the Ken Burns effects to the landscape photo in the "original theme" and could not do so. The effect would operate until I closed iphoto11 and then would fail to operate when I reopened iphoto and ran the saved slideshow. This also occurred when I made a new saved slideshow. This issue only occurred in landscape photos and did not occur in portrait photos. The Ken Burns effects on a portait
photo was updated when going from 9 to 11 and new Ken Burns effects could be added to a new and old saved slideshow.
Of the 12 Themes in saved slideshows only Ken Burns and Original have Ken Burns effects available. The Ken Burns effects are saved when
Iphoto
11 is closed for both portrait and landscape photos in the Ken Burns theme and for portrait photos in the Original Theme. Landscape photos did not save in the "original theme"
I wondered if some how my library was corrupted so I went to a MAC store and made saved slideshows using their machine and their
iphoto
11. I reproduced these results on an Apple store IMAC. Apple is aware
i upgraded from iphoto 9 to iphoto 11. I have several saved slideshows. When I opened the saved slideshows in iphoto11 some of the Ken Burns effects were lost (some turned out to be Ken Burns effects on a landscape photos). I tried to add the Ken Burns effects to the landscape photo in the "original theme" and could not do so. The effect would operate until I closed iphoto11 and then would fail to operate when I reopened iphoto and ran the saved slideshow. This also occurred when I made a new saved slideshow. This issue only occurred in landscape photos and did not occur in portrait photos. The Ken Burns effects on a portait photo was updated when going from 9 to 11 and new Ken Burns effects could be added to a new and old saved slideshow.
Of the 12 Themes in saved slideshows only Ken Burns and Original have Ken Burns effects available. The Ken Burns effects are saved when Iphoto 11 is closed for both portrait and landscape photos in the Ken Burns theme and for portrait photos in the Original Theme. Landscape photos did not save in the "original theme"
I wondered if some how my library was corrupted so I went to a MAC store and made saved slideshows using their machine and their iphoto 11. I reproduced these results on an Apple store IMAC. Apple is aware

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FLICKERING in SLIDESHOW PLAYBACK IN QUICKTIME OR iDVD w/ Ken Burns toggled "ON"
Posted INCORRECTLY EARLIER IN iPhoto 6 Forum: Apr 17, 2009 12:27 PM
Hello everyone, and especially QuickTimeKirk if I can get his attention please--->
After pressing "Play" in iPhoto and with Ken Burns "Auto" toggled ON the PLAYBACK VIEWING photos in iPhoto is OKAY.
After clicking on "Slideshow" and choosing same options, ie., with Auto Ken Burns "ON", VIEWING of Slideshow in iPhoto is OKAY.
Now happy with slideshow, I click on Export (goes into processing with QuickTime, or some elements of it I presume),
NOW SUDDENLY the VIEWING IS JUMPY, SOMETIMES LOCKS UP--totally unacceptable.
Yet if "Auto Ken Burns" is toggled OFF in iPhoto slideshow settings, leaving a flat & still picture and then Exporting File (goes into processing QuickTime) then PLAYBACK VIEW in QuickTime and iDVD IS OKAY.
So, how do I get to use Auto Ken Burns Effect AND without JUMPY/FLICKER/LOCKUPS in my slideshows this year? (A year or more ago everything worked out just fine using the same methods as today).
I sure would appreciate your help so I can send out some iDVD's with my Slideshows with the K-B effect "On."
Please help if you can,
THanks,
Max

Mr. "K"
Thanks very much for your rapid reply...this thing has had me in knots for days.
I opened MI and watched it as I played
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versus
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S# A was a several hundred MB in size (wow, how'd that happen?) while S# B was less than 100MB.
S# A jumps, stutters, etc. S# B does not.
The FPS of 30 and Playing FPS of 30 can be seen in a third (Slideshow#C) video that has KB toggled on and that one doesn't seem to stutter nearly so much. It's size is 70MB.
I checked my Codec Pkg using Get Info and found it is Ver. 1.1
My G4 is rated at 800MHz
and has plenty of RAM (if that's where this stuff is cached for playback).
Not sufficient? Please let me know how and if I can rectify that?
Watching with MI engaged is one thing, but What can I do about this disappointing outcome in iDVD or QuickTime playback?
Earlier (2yrs ago) I could create a Slideshow, toggle on Ken Burns, watch a video with no probs.
If you'd be so kind, please offer your best strategies.
THANKS,
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*Hardware 1:*
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*Hardware 2:*
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*Resolutions that Failed:*
1. The photo is definitely a .jpg
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3. QuickTime and all other Software updates have been applied and are running on the most current release.
4. Repaired disk permissions.
5. Created, saved and manipulated the iMovie file in the standard Movie Folder on my main internal hard drive. (i.e. – I'm not saving to an external HDD)
6. Created, saved and manipulated the iMovie file in the standard Movie Folder on my secondary internal hard drive. (i.e. – I'm not saving to an external HDD)
7. Deleted the 'mac.imovie.plist' file and created a new one.
8. Attempted to do apply the effects logged on as a different user.
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10. Tried a lower resolution photo and the problem persists.
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12. The iMovie trash emptying issue did nothing to help.
*Additional Notes:*
1. The problem is confined to the Ken Burns Effects in iMovie. I am able to work with true video clips without incident.
2. Ken Burns Effects operate properly in iPhoto 6 using the slideshow functionality.
3. I would use iPhoto, but it seems like it would be easier to line up specific sections of an audio track with certain Ken Burns Effects in iMovie. (i.e. – a crescendo at the 16 second mark of the audio track coincides with the end of a 'zoom' on a photo, transition from second 16-17 second mark, new photo at the 17 second mark and pan left to right from 17 second mark to the 25 second mark.) Point is that it lines up precisely with the markers on the audio track, which seems far easier to do in iMovie than iPhoto.
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Message was edited by: Charlie Brown Jr.

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I have imported images from iphoto to idvd to make a movie.
I have been re-arranging images within idvd to my satisfaction and added music.
All images have the Ken Burns effect which I am trying to remove, but my efforts so far have proved unsuccessful.
I would like to have KB on certain selected images, not on all.
Apple support was unable to help saying that the file could be corrupted.
When I start a new test project, all is well, ie: I have control of adding KB or removing it.
I do not want to start the project again from scratch,so my question is...Can KB be locked?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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Can you clarify a couple things for us, Everton, for it's not exactly clear what you're trying to do, and in which application...
I get the feeling that although you've posted in the iMovie forum, you're not creating an iMovie slideshow, right? You're creating a slideshow in either iDVD or iPhoto, I suspect.
You said you imported photos to iDVD and have re-arranged them there. That can be done in iDVD. It's possible to import photos and create your slideshow there.
But then you said you're trying to remove the Ken Burns Effect from select slides. Trouble is, I don't know of any way to add (or remove) the Ken Burns Effect in a slideshow created in iDVD, and that's where I get confused. The Ken Burns Effect feature isn't part of iDVD. (I may have missed it. If so, please point me in the right direction.)
The slideshows we create in iPhoto, on the other hand, do let us add the Ken Burns Effect to ALL the slides randomly, or add it to individual slides, or a combination of both. (The Settings button of the iPhoto slideshow lets us include it to all the slides.)
After we configure a iPhoto slideshow we can send it to iDVD, where it arrives as a movie. But we can't re-arrange the slides nor edit any features in iDVD — it's not that kind of slideshow. It's a movie.
So, it may be that you're trying to do something in iDVD that just can't be done — edit the Ken Burns Effect configured in an iPhoto slideshow. It may be that your editing should be done in iPhoto BEFORE sending the iPhoto slideshow to iDVD.
It's also possible you've created two different kinds of slideshows in your iDVD project, one created by dragging photos to iDVD, the other created by iPhoto. In that case, the iPhoto slideshow may include the Ken Burns Effect but the iDVD slideshow would not. To modify the Ken Burns Effect features, you have to edit the slideshow in iPhoto and re-import it to iDVD.
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