Still Photos in iMovie

This may have been asked by another user in the past, but I can't see one at this time. Anyway, I was making a "movie" in iMovie using some still photos mixed in with some video. At any rate, the still photos when viewed in iMovie have jagged edges along straight lines which ruins the quality of the photo. I have tried several procedures to try and resolve this issue, but to no avail. When building a slide show in iPhoto, these same pictures are crystal clear. I have even taken these iPhoto slideshows and exported to quicktime and copied and pasted these into exported iMovie movies, but that seems like too many steps. Besides, since iMovie allows pictures to be imported, I would hope that they should still remain high quality.
Thanks for all your help in advance!

hi Tully:
Read what Matti Haveri has docomented on the 'jaggies' in imovie:
iMovie HD 6.0.3 renders jaggy still images when sending them to tape or iDVD
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/iMovieHD_6_bugs.html#jaggystills
Sue

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