Keyframing still photos causes jerky movement during transition

I am trying to pan over a few of my still photos in my movie by using the keyframe function, and in the playback the movement appears jerky during the cross-dissolve transition. Can anyone suggest a good way to fix this? I am using FCE 4.0.1.
Thank you!

I apologize, I just realized I found the answer to my question - I have pasted the answer from another post below for those that might be reading this:
This is because by adding the cross dissolve, you are having FCE show portions of the clip that precede and follow where your keyframes are. So the dissolve starts, the clip is just sitting there, then begins motions when the keyframe starts . . . etc.
You need to double click on a clip on the timeline, so that it opens in the viewer, then click on the Motion tab and move your starting keyframes for the clip before and after start and end of the transitions on the timeline.

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