Inserting jpeg still ahead of video loses widescreen??

I had wireframed and rendered a video so it was properly cropped. Then I put a jpeg still in front of it and the succeeding video appears to have taken on the dimensions of the jpeg, resulting in a lousy crop.
Does this make sense? Am I unfairly blaming the jpeg? What to do?
Tnx.
/john

Hey V
The source is less than 1/3 the resolution of the eventual target resolution (1920x1080) so you must be doing a more than 300% blowup of that image in order to fit your target. That will account for some of the loss of quality you are seeing. Additionally, as Tom has alluded, the Canvas window in FCP is just a low res proxy view of your edit ... you need to see the rendered footage on a proper video monitor before you can be certain of the final quality.
As for the dropped frames, FCP is trying to convert this low res PDF file into an HD video format in real time ... which is proving too much for your system. You'll need to render that section first for realtime playback.
Hope that helps explain whats going on and why.
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