Stuttery slideshiws when exported to iMovie

Hi there,
I've been having a few problems recently getting photo slideshows for iDVD looking as good as they should.
I had been using iMovie just fine, but had some photos that just looked awful. So I had a look at doing slideshows in iPhoto - much faster than doing it in iMovie because you don't have to wait for the rendering, plus you work with a bigger preview, plus you can set the music to fit the slideshow.
Trouble with iPhoto is that the fit audio to slidewhow seems to be bugged - the music stops a bit early. Not that annoying, but the first couple of seconds of the first track starts again, which does kind of spoil it.
So I tried exporting it back to iMovie without music, to add the music in iMovie. So I shared to QT - the QT file plays fine as in iPhoto, perfectly smoothly.
However, when I import it into iMovie, a lot of the panning motion is stuttery - particularly a pan from left to right or right to left.
So basically, it seems that whatever route I go down at the moment to create photo slidehsows on DVD, something or other seems to go wrong.
Any suggestions hgely appreciated...
Cheers,
Iain

If you don't have to have the KB effect in the slideshow, creating the slideshow directly from stills in iDVD will give you the sharpest images in the final product. Most of the transitions are available you just can't have the KB effect.
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