Photo Stills look good on the timeline but awful during playback

Not sure what I did wrong. I'm doing a slideshow of photos and some of the photos look great during playback and some look pixelated. What is the reason behind this? I remember when I did a video the video clips were coming out blurry and I found a "trick" where I had to add a high resolution clip that would set the precedent for all other clips to keep them from being blurry. But this is with photos now so I'm not sure of any "tricks".
Any help appreciated. Thanks!

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