Jpg jagged edges

Hi,
I'm making a video from jpgs -- all were taken by a professional photographer, really big file sizes, so that they are down to about 26% to fill the screen. Problem is the jagged edges, particularly on straight lines -- and there are a lot of these because it's architectural photography.
Tried Gaussian Blur in FCP, but it softens the photos too much.
Any other ideas?
thanks,
Eve

Let's try this from the top.
Recognize that NOTHING on the TV will ever ever look as sharp and as detailed as the original images.
1. A pro photographer should be able to deliver files in TIF or PSD - lossless formats. JPG is a lossy format designed to compress images for transmission over the internet and display on computer monitors. It was intended to be used by people who care more about small file size than maintaining image fidelity.
2. Unless you are doing moves (pan/zoom) on the images, you should reduce their pixel count to something close to the codec size. For DV, the equivalent square pixel size is 720x540. Best to do this in Photoshop (or other image editing software) before importing into FCP as FCP does not have the most sophisticated scaling engine.
3. Deinterlacing still images makes no sense what so ever. Deinterlacing takes half the image and throws it away then adds back the missing lines of information interpolated from the remaining lines. Why would you do this on a still image?
4. Images with a great deal of contrast and or thin horizontal edge detail will benefit from a slight vertical gausian blur - .5. This will make the detail that exists on only one scan line (which may appear to vibrate) blend over two scan lines so the image will counterintuitively look sharper - or at least more stable. Setting the Field dominance to "none" will also help as it tells FCP to render by frame not by field.
5. Keep in mind the color space of the DVD is the same as DV - 4:1:1. Unless you are manipulating the images (color correcting, composting, overlay titling, etc) your images will not improve with ProRes or DV50 codecs and the editing file sizes will grow significantly. If you are engaging in those activities, you will see a benefit.
6. Unless you are planning to make some variant of an high definition DVD (currently Blu-ray), it doesn't make any sense to me to work in an HD format for editing then down convert to DV size for burning. Why not simply work at the size/aspect ratio of the final output?
7. As noted, you really MUST have a TV monitor connected to view the material as you edit/play it back. Otherwise, you will have no idea how your work will display without burning to disk.
Have fun.
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