Jaggy Edges: None Before Rendering - Plenty After Rendering

hi guys.
i'm working on a stop motion project at the moment. in Sequence Settings, Compressor is set to photo-jpeg, frame size and pixel aspect ratio to HD 1440x1080, field dominance to none, video processing to "always render in RGB" and rendering quality is set to Best.
now, the problem i've been facing is that the unrendered footage looks perfect, crisp and sharp in terms of its quality. but then it acquires jaggy edges on all of the objects in the footage after rendering!
OR... sometimes the footage looks fine when paused, but has jaggy edges in motion, when i press Play.
i even tried to export the footage without rendering it, but the exported material had the same jaggy edges issue.
could anyone help me with advice, please?
the imported photos of this stop motion project are top-quality. so the resulting final product with these jaggy edges is much more than undesirable!
thanks in advance.

cbiewer wrote:
My computer was fine last week and now when I try to render out of AE it freezes or crashes on the render screen... I am running OSX 10.6.6 with a Processor of 2.93 GHx Intel COre i7 Memory is 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 AE is CS5 legit copy that is paid for... I did not install any new scripts or plug ins or anything since last week when it rendered fine.
Ah, but you might have made some changes in AE Preferences, perhaps.
Mind you, I only did a fast once-over in this thread, I may have missed something, so I have to ask: do you have multiprocessing turned on?
If so, turn it off and leave it off until you get more memory: you don't have nearly enough memory to use it. Considering AE 10 can use all the memory your machine can hold, 4GB ain't nothin' anymore. 16GB is pretty darned good, and 32GB is even better.

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