Batch Process "save as" problem

Strange things are happening during the batch process save as function.
I have a set of actions i need to run on a couple of hundred jpegs, they simply need a lens correction, auto colour and auto contrast, then need saving as tiffs, all works fine when i record the action, but when i run it on a folder full of jpegs, the tiffs are huge! original jpegs are around 5mb and the tiffs are 30mb, if i apply the save as to a file individually it seems fine (file size around 2mb)
In the save as section i have specified jpeg compression at a quality of 8, but it seems to miss this in the batch process, am i missing something?
Running CS6 on OSX 10.7.5

What Script? You spoke of Actions previously.
And using Save As in Batch processing can be problematic.
Maybe Image Processor (or Image Processor Pro) might help to avoid having to include that in the Action.
But why tiff if you are going to apply the same destructive compression as a straight jpg?

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