Getting weird quality problems in SD

i am currently working on a project in SD 16:9 ion which every image and every title is outputing in poor qulaity.
i have manipulated this stuff a dozen times and changed settings all round, but if i'm doing an sd project, i
get this quality issue.
this is Premiere CS4
720x480 NTSC 16:9
outputing to the same format avi.
the images are jpegs or pngs and of course
the titles dont show transparecny properly or shadows.
i never had this problem before and i have been doing projects this way for a long time,
so i cant figure out what the issue is.
can anybody help?

Can you please give the specs. on your JPEG's and PNG's? This would be the pixel x pixel dimensions of those images, mainly.
the titles dont show transparecny properly or shadows.
I'm not sure that I follow here. Where are the Titles being created - Titler? How are the Titles being used - on a Video Track above the still image on a lower Video Track? Please explain the reference to "shadows," as I am totally lost there.
This ARTICLE will give you some tips on still images into video.
In your Export, do you have Recompress turned ON, or OFF? I leave this OFF for almost all Exports.
Good luck,
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