Playback resolution of digital pics

I have assembled a photo presentation using imovie, I have imported high resolution photos. When I go to play back the photos are all pixelated and undesireable looking. Please provide any solutions or let me know if this is what I can expect, if possible....Thanks so much

Hi Mark. Welcome to the forum.
Be sure to set iMovie HD playback preferences to show best quality -- turn on "Highest (field blending)". Start there.
There's a bug in iMovie HD that adds "jaggies" to images unless you handle them properly. The trick is to NOT grant iMovie permission to render the images when you press the "Create iDVD Project" button (in the iDVD tab of iMovie). If you refuse permission, iDVD will render them for you. (If you haven't pressed the button yet, the jaggies have not yet been added.)
If you avoid that bug the DVD you burn will be just fine viewed on a TV.
A good way to avoid the bug is to force iMovie's Ken Burns Effect to render the images as they are imported to iMovie. (Then iMovie won't ask later to render them.) Just turn on the Ken Burns checkbox as you import the image and Ken Burns will render them. It does so with great clarity.
Aside from all that, note that the image you see in iMovie is never as good as the underlying DV (digital video) it creates. iMovie HD simply never shows you all the quality that's there. So don't let the appearance of a newly-imported photo -- even a Ken Burns-rendered photo -- to fool you. That's just an iMovie playback feature we all live with. The images will be fine viewed on TV.
(If you have QuickTime Pro, you can watch the project movie and see all the quality that's actually there. QuickTime Pro is required to configure the movie to play with the best quality.)
Remember too that you are no longer looking at a high resolution image. iMovie has converted it to DV, which is smaller and whose quality is never quite as good as the original. But it's a lot better than you see now.
There are LOTS of threads here discussing this issue. Search the forum for "Jaggies" or "blurry" and you'll find them.
Here's a portion of one:
Karl Petersen, "iMovie- Pictures become blurry after import" #67, 11:08am Sep 12, 2005 CDT
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