Trouble with Sunset pictures posterizing in iMovie & iDVD

I have sunset photos taken in Aruba with a Canon EOS 40 D camera shot in RAW at high resolution. I use Photoshop CS4 to print, use iPhoto 9, Aperture 2 and Lightroom 2 for slideshows, and they all look great; however, when I bring a picture into iMovie and/or iDVD because I want to burn a DVD with music, all of the sunset photos become posterized, but any other photos appear fine. Sunset pictures are not posterized in iPhoto 9, Aperture 2, Lightroom 2, and even Adobe Premiere Elements in Windows XP. What is happening and how do I avoid this? The only way I have found is to desaturate the photos, but then they do not look like a sunset picture and it defeats the purpose. Your help is appreciated.

Yes. I have tried the highest quality JPEGs, and when that did not work I also tried Tiffs. It did not seem to make any difference. Thanks for your question. I thought perhaps it was an export problem from iPhoto, etc., so I then just tried dragging the photos into iMovie and/or iDVD. That did not help either. It appears both programs compress the files when they are opened. I am hoping there is a workaround for it.

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