Jpeg's look interlaced in final cut pro

I know you folks are probably getting sick of me, but here's one more. When I bring jpegs into final cut and put them on my timeline, they look like you can see the interlacing in them. The only thing that seems to fix thi is if I go to the settings and turn the fields off completely, but when I do this, the video looks funny. Again, please tell me what I am doing wrong. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

Uhm...concerning pictures...read this:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=618846&tstart=0
Also, JPEGS are highly compressed and not ideal for working with in FCP. TIFFs and PNGs are much better. ABSOLUTELY NO NEED to convert these to media files. Avids way of making them media files was the worse thing that could be done to those stills. Didn't allow for any movement on them whatsoever. You needed a special plugin to allow that on an Avid.
Look at this tutorial for some insight:
http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/pagewrapper.cgi?forumid=8&page=http://www.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/moveme nt_onstills/index.html
Shane

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