To iMovie makes pics smaller - WHY?

every time I import (or copy or drag or whatever) a photo frm iPhoto into iMovie it gets cut in size from (for example) 877kb to 97kb. Then, the great photos look all pixilated and blurry. How can I prevent then photos from becoming smaller when exported? Please help!
Thanks

You can't really compare the filesizes as such:
iMovie uses the DV codec so, for example, a JPG image must be converted to DV.
iMovie is also restricted to video resolutions so a megapixel image must be converted to NTSC 720x480 or PAL 720x576. Yes, video resolution is bad but that't the way it is.
So a non-Ken Burns image is typically converted to a single frame DV clip which is about 100 kB.
See also:
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_aMacintosh.html#slideshow
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/iMovieHD_6_bugs.html#jaggystills
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/iMovieHD_5_bugs.html#jaggystills

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