MY JPEG STILLS LOOK AWFUL!

OK, Here's my deal...
I am editing a photo-slide show for a photographer who has taken very high resolution photos and given them to me as JPEGS.
After spending days composing an edit with key-frames (a la ken burns effect), I exported it only to learn that JPEG look horrible (the photos have lost so much quality and look pixelated and fuzzy).
I tried to change one of the jpegs into a TIFF with an NTSC color filter in Photoshop, and then brought into final cut, but it still looks bad! Even with the de-interlacing filter...
Anyone know what to do? I'm on a very tight deadline and I will send flowers to anyone who can figure this out for me...
THANKS!!

I am editing a photo-slide show for a photographer who has taken very high resolution photos and given them to me as JPEGS. < </div>
Bad idea. Let him do his own video stuff.
"High rez" is meangless in video. He's probably given you jpgs that are 3k pixels and you have to scale them down to fit the video window or make them small enough to move around. FCP's scaling algorithm totally blows. Use Motion which has a different GPU-empowered engine.
After spending days composing an edit with key-frames (a la ken burns effect), I exported it only to learn that JPEG look horrible (the photos have lost so much quality and look pixelated and fuzzy).< </div>
Exported to what? Where are you viewing this file? Of course they look bad. You've reduced the original's 3,000 by 3,000 pixels to less than 500 by 800. And you have moved them from a progressive display system to an interlaced video format.
I tried to change one of the jpegs into a TIFF with an NTSC color filter in Photoshop, and then brought into final cut, but it still looks bad! Even with the de-interlacing filter... <</div>
Deinterlacing cannot be applied to a non-interlaced item. Still images are not interlaced. Your video sequence is interlaced, assuming you're working in anything that is NTSC. But if you deinterlace the sequence when you render and then export, you will simply throw away more pixels (every other line is discarded) or you will blur the image more (by blending the fields) which will make horizontal moves show comb artifacts on any distinct edges. Then you'll be posting again.
You have two choices:
1. Accept the output and chalk it up to experience
2. Take the project into Motion (you'll need a few days to learn how to use Motion, it's not as easy as Apple wants you believe)
Wait, you have three choices:
1 and 2 above and 3. Familiarize yourself with the concept of anit-aliasing and add a bit of blur to the final rendered movie. It will actually make it look better.
ONe more--1, 2, or 3 and 4. Get a simple dedicated application like FotoMagico and let it do the heavy lifting for you.
bogiesan
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