Getting images to render without degradation

Hi guys
I need some help. I'm a new Final Cut Studio user, and want to know how to ensure my imported images (high rez JPEG files) render smoothly in FC?
The specific images are newspaper clippings, and when I render them as a Quicktime movie, the text appears degraded and pixelated. Is there any way of improving this?
Please help!
Thanks
Rob

Rob
You need to bear in mind the resolution that the newspaper cuttings were scanned at versus the resolution and codec of your sequence. Obviously a high res scan would be bound to be much degraded if the target resolution of your Quicktime Movie is quite small and/or a low quality codec. What are the dimensions of these JPEG files and what sequence settings are you using in FCP?
Andy

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P.S. And a Happy New Year to all!
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Placing your device into recovery mode:
Follow these steps to place your iOS device into recovery mode. If your iOS device is already in recovery mode, you can proceed immediately to step 6.
     1. Disconnect the USB cable from the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, but leave the other end
         of the cable connected to your computer's USB port.
     2. Turn off the device: Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the
         red slider appears, then slide the slider. Wait for the device to turn off.
          If you cannot turn off the device using the slider, press and hold the Sleep/Wake
          and Home buttons at the same time. When the device turns off, release the Sleep/Wake
          and Home buttons.
     3. While pressing and holding the Home button, reconnect the USB cable to the device.
         The device should turn on. Note: If you see the screen pictured below, let the device
         charge for at least ten minutes to ensure that the battery has some charge, and then
         start with step 2 again.
     4. Continue holding the Home button until you see the "Connect to iTunes" screen.
         When this screen appears you can release the Home button.
     5. If necessary, open iTunes. You should see the following "recovery mode" alert:
     6. Use iTunes to restore the device.
If you don't see the "Connect to iTunes" screen, try these steps again. If you see the "Connect to iTunes" screen but the device does not appear in iTunes, see this article and its related links.
Additional Information:
Note: When using recovery mode, you can only restore the device. All user content on the device will be erased, but if you had previously synced with iTunes on this computer, you can restore from a previous backup. See this article for more information.

My iphone 4 isn not responding the screen is just showing a usb lead and the itunes symbol. When i plug it into my desktop mac and link it to itunes ,itunes is telling me the phone is in a restore mode .can i get it to respond without restoring ?

my iphone 4 is not responding the screen is just showing a usb lead and the itunes symbol. when i plug it into my desktop mac and try to sync it to itunes ,itunes is telling me the phone is in a restore mode. How do i get it to respond without restoring the phone to new ? there is no option to restore with backup as i have not backed up any of the data on the phone any help would be greatly appreciated thanks

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
You can't not restore if you have reached this point

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