Best settings for show with just JPEG at 300 psi

Hello,
My son is working on a school video project. The elements are music, JPG stills (scanned at 300 psi from a black and white negative) and text (a poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti).
He will use the motion tools to zoom and pan on the images, etc.
Can anyone suggest the best set-up for working with black and white still jpg images. He will be using FCP 6 on Mac G5.
Thanks.

In the first (and most important) instance the video will be played off a standard Mac laptop (an old Powerbook) probably through a fairly basic school projector. Nothing fancy (no budget in public schools for anything like that).
I am playing about with the JPG set-up (square pixels at 720 x 480). Though my instincts tell me I should wait and hear and get the official line (or best practice as they say in some circles).
The images are scanned from a 35mm black and white negative as a 4x6 300dpi jpg.
I have color corrected in Photoshop and have made copies in a re-sized 720x480 screen size (if that will help).
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