Poor resolution in FCE of JPEG photos

Can someone tell me why my JPEG images look bad (jagged edges and blurry) with FCE? I import them into FCE using both medium and high JPEG quality. They initially look good in the viewer but after I add them to the timeline and render, the quality is terrible in the canvas. I even burned it to DVD thinking it may just be in FCE but it carried over onto the DVD. It seems to be worse when I add keyframes and motion to the still images. Is there a timing or format issue here? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

OK, thanks for doing that.
You need to realize you are placing your very nice JPEGS into a timeline that is smaller (by several times) the size of your original, and is using a (by current standards) a minimum/low quality compression codec. When FCE reduces the size of your JPEG from 2000 px wide to 720, it throws out a lot of pixels.
This means that something has to give - and what gives is image quality and smoothness. A trademark feature of the DV codec is jagged edges along curved or diagonal lines, and a "shimmering" on highly detailed areas of the still image.
This loss of image quality can be acerbated when doing motion effects on the images.
To help with this try the following:
On the first JPEG you use apply a slight Gaussian Blur to it. Effects Tab > Video Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Drag the filter to the clip on the timeline, double click on the clip you just applied the filter to, and in the Viewer window, click on the Filters Tab. Set the blur radius to 1.
Render that clip and see if it improves it any. If it does, click on the clip with the blur applied, and type Command + C to copy it. Then select all the other JPEGS in your sequence by holding the Shift key down when clicking on them. Once the rest are all selected, type Option - V and from the paste attributes window, click on the check box for filters. Click OK, and the blur will be applied to your remaining images.
You will need to re-render all those clips.
Hope this helps.
MtD

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