Horizontal bands on transitions

I created a still photo montage and am getting horizontal banding in many of the shots and transitions, particularly on the edge of the photos.
I didn't really notice it while I was editing. But it was quite obvious after exporting to iDVD. Afterwards, I went back into FCE and zoomed into the Canvas and the banding is indeed noticeable.
For example, there is a still photo on Track 2 (scaled to 50%) overlapping another still on Track 1. As the hidden still slides out from behind the Track 2 image, it has the horizontal banding on its edges.
Also, all the transition where the edge of the photo is visible, especially on 3D style ones (like Cube Spin) have the banding.
All stills were scanned into Photoshop and saved as 720 X 540 TIFF images.
It happens with the native FCE transitions, as well as plugins from Nattress.
I would appreciate any advice as to how to solve this problem.

When you add a picture to your timeline, FCP stretch it automatically to compensate the pixel aspect ratio (squares in the picture) difference with your footage (rectangular for video).
Let's try with a couple of pictures cropped to 720x480 in Photoshop, NOT resized, just cropped to that size, and look if your bands are still there or not!

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