Poor Photo Quality on Quicktime Slideshow Export

A friend of mine is having this problem. Can anyone help out?
(they are using iPhoto 5.0.4)
I've always used iPhoto to builld slideshows and
export them as a QuickTime movie. I've never had a
problem until recently. I'm building one now that has
a lot of vivid color images in it. When I export it,
some of the images are appearing pixellated. The
quality just isn't there. I'm exporting on the
largest size available. I'm sure the problem is
probably compression; it must be having a problem
compressing the data on the color images. The b/w
images are fine. This is the first time I've ever
seen this. I've used iPhoto to build/export color
shows before without a problem, but I know that was
before we upgraded to the newer version. I've tried
resizing images down to see if it would help, but it
hasn't.

Steve:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. What system version and Quicktime version are being used? If QT is not at 7.0.3 I suggest you update to that followed by a permissions repair.
Otherwise pixilation suggests insufficient file size. What size are they and are you using them in a KB effect?
OT

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