Quick iPhoto / ken burns question

Hi,
Just a quickie, I've had an issue with some photos rendering poorly in an iMovie generated slideshow on a DVD, and am wondering about iPhoto - is it possible to manually manipulate the zooms and pans on individual photos using KB in iPhoto in the same way you can in iMovie, or does it just randomly generate KB effects?
Cheers,
Iain

When you are viewing your Cinematic slideshow, the one you created by hitting the Slideshow icon,you will see a photo browser above and the Previewing window below.
If you click the "settings" icon this is where you set the controls for the slideshow globally. There is a setting to "loop" and "fit to audio to slideshow"
I've got to tell you one thing that has been experienced by everyone (or mostly everyone). If you choose "fit to slideshow" it will look great in iPhoto or it might be off by one image (this is my experience).
When you send to DVD or share/export to a Quicktime movie, the wonderful planning and timing is somehow lost and either the music or the slides of the images will end first. I am not exactly sure on this as I don't have iPhoto open right now. If you are really serious about the timing there are work arounds.
One being export the slideshow to Quicktime (without the audio), import that movie into iMovie and add your audio there. It will take some fiddling to get the timing right.

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When I export, the result is a .mov file. Everything looks great when I play it on Quicktime, except for some of the photos on which I had used Ken Burns (meaning there's motion). The bad ones don't render properly, and are "jerky" for lack of a more technical word. They get stuck for a couple of seconds, jump forward, get stuck again, etc.
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