Poor photograph image quality

First off, I am a hopeless newbie, so please treat me gently....
I am trying to put together a DVD which is a combination of DV and still images - using FCE4. Everything is working fine - I am happy with the video and the stills. The problem I face is when I attempt to emulate the Ken Burns effects on the stills: the image quality is just horrible.
Any truly still image looks fine but as soon as I attempt to pan or zoom them, the image quality drops amazingly. Initially I thought that perhaps it was to do with resolution of the images I was using, so I went back to the original RAW files and re-exported them as full resolution (12mp) JPGS. This didn't seem to make any difference at all.
Any clues as to what I am doing wrong (I am certain that it is me!) would be gratefully appreciated.
Kind regards
Simon

Exactly what do you mean by horrible quality ? Blurred ? Jittery ?
Remember that your high quality stills are going to look comparatively poor when put onto DV because they are going from maybe 3200x2400 down to around 768x576.
So a tremendous amount of detail is going to be lost.
The originals can be of much lower quality than 12 megapixels.
Are you looking at the effect on the computer monitor or on a TV lashed to your setup ? It is important to see what the video is like on an actual TV rather than your computer screen.
I don't know whether this tutorial will be of any use, but take a look :-
http://www.fcpbook.com/MotionControl_inFCE.html
Ian.

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