Jpg vs TIFF

i'm editing an animation project comprised of still images that i'm creating in photoshop. my question is if there is a difference between using Jpg or Tiff files in the quality of the final HD movie, if all i plan to do in FCP is some light color correction?
is there a visible difference in quality if i export the files as 32 bit TIFF?
since the TIFF files are 3-4 times the size of the JPGs, will they slow down FC? (with large JPG files it often takes FCP a long time to prepare video for display)
much obliged,
dn

Jpegs are highly compressed, Tiffs usually are not compressed.
FCP prefers Tiff. If your images start off as jpeg, they will not be improved in quality by converting to Tiff. Rendering Tiff will be faster because FCP does not have to decode the jpeg compression before rendering.

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