Timing is off with iMovie slideshow

I made a slideshow using iMovie. I used [share=>quicktime=>expert settings==>movie to apple tv] to save the movie. When I play the m4v file using quicktime, the timing is ok. But, when I play it on Apple TV, some of the timing is different. Why?

Well the issue appears to be the frame rate.
I'm not quite sure what is going on here or how it has happened, but the basic principle here is that you seem to have a variable frame rate which quicktime can obviously cope with but the tv cannot.
The majority of the pictures seem to run at a frame rate of 0.33 fps (or 1 frame every 3 seconds) which is fine for these pictures; but at one point you have 2 photos occupying a 3 second slot (one at 1s and one at 2s), the problem being that you cannot display 1/3 and 2/3's of a frame. Obviously Quicktime manages to resolve this problem as you would like it to but the tv doesn't.
What you really need here is a frame rate of 3 fps, then each photo would play for 3 frames except the two at 1s and 2s which would play for 1 frame and 2 frames respectively.
The reason I don't fully understand what is going on here is that I really wouldn't expect imovie HD export for tv to export at either 0.33 of 1 fps, but rather at 30 fps. I'm not sure whether this is supposed to be the case or not, but imovie clearly isn't exporting for the tv properly under these circumstances.
As a workaround you could apply a small amount of ken burns effect to each still or export to full quality and then use QT pro or mpegstreamclip to export the full quality clip to tv format.

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