Blury Images on Timeline

I am new to Premiere Elements 9 or any other Elements for that matter. I am trying to put together a video made up of stills. All of my stills, which are a mix of jpg and bmp files are sharp in the organizer. But, when I move them into the timeline they become blury in playback. I have check all settings and made sure everything was set to high quality. I have used Windows movie maker in the past and all images from that program are sharp. I would hope that Elements with all of it's great features would do the same. I am sure i am missing something here. Any help anyone can give will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. Badger.

Have you rendered your timeline?
Press Enter when you see red lines above the clips on your timeline. When the video is rendered, the red lines will turn green and your video should look much more like your final output.
Also, be sure to NEVER use photos larger than 1000x750 pixels in size in Premiere Elements, per my books and the FAQs to the right of this forum.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/431851
If you are brand new to video editing, you may want to check out my free 8-part Basic Training tutorial series at Premiere Elements support size Muvipix.com. It can save you a lot of headaches later!
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/537685

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