Quality of photos is terrible

I am making a slideshow so I used FCE and put about 100 photos on there with transitions, Livetype, and a HD video clip. When I rendered the project everything was pixelated and I noticed that anything I put on the timeline was just as bad.

If you're editing in a standard definition sequence hen you need to monitor the output on a video monitor through a digital to analog converter. You cannot assess a compressed, interlaced format designed for display on a television set by watching it on a computer monitor.

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    10:24 PM      Thursday; July 14, 2011
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