Premiere Pro Final Product is Grainy

I have been using Premiere Pro (currently Premiere 3.0) for a few years now. My video export has always looked good on my computer and on a burnt DVD. That said...my photos which ae High quality do not look as impressive. They look slightly pixilated and at times grainy. I have tried resizing the photos to match my project's sizes and still no improvement. Here is my info:
Files Size 49.1 MB
Image size 720x480
Pixel Depth 720
Frame Rate 29.97
Source Audio 48000 - 16 bit stereo
Project Audio 48000 - 32 bit floating point stereo
Pixel Apsect 1.2
my photos are 4.65 in size
Dimensions 4288 x 2848
Horizontal and Vertical Res 240
Bit Depth 24
Again I have tried to resize them...and its seems to make no difference.
Three-year headache now! Please help!!
~Nikon

Nikon,
The best quality that you can obtain with PrPro and Video of Still Images, is by Scaling your Stills to the Frame Size of the Video Project, say 720 x 480 for NTSC, in Photoshop. The Scaling algorithms are much better, than those in PrPro. This ARTICLE goes into more detail. As you are on a version of PrPro, prior to CS 5, you can ignore the discussions on how things improved, as of CS 5, with the Mercury Playback Engine.
Depending on the version of PS that you have, there will probably be two very useful Interpolation algorithms for Scaling (with Resample checked), and you might want to experiment with them, and your Images, to choose whether it's better to use Bicubic Smoother, or Bicubic Sharper. Much depends on the individual Image, and on what you find the best. I use both, but it will depend on the original Image.
As others have stated, SD Video is much, much smaller, than your originals, so will never look so good, but with the help of PS, you can still get them, as good as it gets.
Good luck,
Hunt

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