Photos pixelating in iMovie slideshow

I am making an iMovie11 DVD with short video clips in the beginning and later it switches to photos on one-second flashing without transitions and with music in the background. Trouble is though, about half of the photos, even though they are hi-res, originals, pixelate like they are low-res. All photos were shot with the same Sony 828 and are roughly three megs each. When viewed individually, through iPhoto, they look great.
Any idea on what is happening or a cure?

That's absolutely right, the size of the incoming file not matter what it is will be crunched down to fit on the standard DVD-R size of 4.7GBytes. With video however it's dependend on the 'runtime' of the material. You cannot go over 120 minutes total including the menus and animated screens that appear at the beggining of some iDVD themes (those animations take up disk space). It's always a case of making a compromise to fit things onto that fixed sized disk.

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