Jerky Slow Motion with FCE

Hi,
I have final cut express 4, and I'm making a movie, part of it is pictures, and the other part video. I decided to make the pictures HD because they look better, but my video is SD. However, when I make a master sequence of my pictures and video sequences, slow motion in my SD video looks interlaced and jerky. I got rid of the interlace with the De-interlace filter, but I can't get rid of the jerky slow motion. PLEASE HELP!!!!

Actually, what I did was I put the HD pictures into a non-HD master timeline, which is basically what iDVD would do anyway, and the pictures looked better than if I made them in SD, and that way, my slow motion looked fine.

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