JPEG? TIFF? PNG? PCT? Best still format to use in FCP7???

I'm making a WWII documentary that will feature a lot of pans and zooms on stills. My sequence setting is DV-NTSC, 480i.
I'd like to know the best Photoshop still format I should be using. I've heard that TIFF is best but it also happens to take up a lot more memory than for example JPEG, PCT or PNG. One photo I have that is only 233KB as a jpeg, 450KB as pct and 800 as a png file is a whopping 25MB as a tiff!
So if I plan to do any zooming or panning, will tiff files slow down FCP7.
What is the best photoshop format for large stills to be panned on and zoomed into?
Thanks very much in advance,
- Nick
Message was edited by: Nicholas Natteau1
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If I'm reading Studio X correctly, JPEG would actually be slower since FCP would need to decompress each image as it's opened in addition to whatever video processing is done. The TIFF would only need to be read in. But that impact would only be upon initial load.
One way to speed things up is to divide and conquer. The more images you have in a sequence and the more sequences you have open, the more FCP will slow down. It's not just opening the images but creating the thumbnails used in the timeline that seems to take time. It would be better to split up your final output into several sequences with a smaller number of images in each one. How you split it would depend on content. I usually also split up large projects into several sequences to speed up any rework I encounter after compression. If you find some small error in the DVD (like a misspelled name for example), it's short work to fix that one sequence and re-compress than to have to re-compress the entire project again.

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