Ken Burns - workaround to zoom in further?

Hi! It seems iMovie has a built-in limit on how far you can zoom in with the Ken Burns-effect. In my case this means when I try to zoom in on a single face within a class photo, I can only get as 'close' as 4-5 faces. Anyone know a workaround for this? Or have I missed a setting somewhere?

this seems to be an iMovie limitation based on other discussions i've read. 
only workaround I can think of is to create a 2nd picture cropped (e.g., photoshop) to the zoomed in 4-5 faces size.  if NOT done well then I imagine it wouldn't be seamless, but maybe you can hide it by zoom using original photo, pause the zoomed original photo, (add transition if there's a jump to next photo), zoom using newly cropped photo.
here's how i add pauses before and after a zoom.
create ken burns effect for a photo
copy photo with ken burns effect & paste it twice
for the first photo with ken burns effect, change the kb effect to iMovie's "crop"
for the last photo with kb effect, modify kb effect by reversing start & end by pressing arrows next to start (be sure to ONLY press the reverse arrows & not change position of zoom area), change the new start to iMovie's "crop"
i've thought of doing this, but haven't tried it yet.

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