Importing Photos to FCP come out grainy and pixelated

HeyHey,
So I've got a bunch of pictures (JPEGs) I'm trying to import into FCP. I can get them physically into the sequence, but they're grainy and crappy looking. When I view them in iPhoto, they're perfectly good looking, but when I put them in the sequence, they loo really bad. Any suggestions?
Thank you.

Match your pixels to your sequence settings or get close.
Don't enlarge the Scale (in the Motion Tab) to a setting beyond 100
and then
Shane's Stock Answer #2: Blurry playback
ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL BROADCAST MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.
The Canvas shows you what happens after the codec you are working with has been applied. The Viewer shows you the material in its native format. Once you drop the footage from the Viewer into the timeline, it inherits the attributes of the sequence. If it is a DV sequence, the footage will render out as DV.
1. Disable overlays on the Canvas.
2. Make sure you've rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline).
Video playback requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the DV data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the DV footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or broadcast monitor routed thru your camera or deck.

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