Using iMovie 08 for Stop Motion?

My son and I have been using iMovie to do stopmotion animation. But with iLife 08, it seems the ability to import stills at 10-15fps and without the Ken Burns effect has been taken away. I can't get still photos to come in at anything besides 4sec/frame, and they have to be changed one by one - I can't batch change them. And, I can't figure out how to get rid of the Ken Burns effect.
I'm probably just going to by iStopMotion anyway, but does anyone have tips on how to import a whole batch of iPhoto stills at ".3 fps" (*** happened to references to the 30fps btw)? AND turn off the Ken Burns effect?
Thanks,

The menu command File > Project Properties lets us control both the default playtime of imported images (both new images and all current project images) and the Ken Burns effect. And, of course, after importing an image you can adjust both properties by selecting the image and clicking the little Crop icon in the upper left corner.
These functions can also be accessed by Control-clicking on a slideshow image thumbnail.
iMovie 7 doesn't let us set a playtime shorter than .1 seconds (about 3 frames). For shorter durations it may be necessary to use QuickTime Pro to import the images as a sequence into a QuickTime movie. That lets you import using any duration you want. Then you would import THAT movie to iMovie. It would arrive in iMovie as video, however, not individual images.
Karl

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