Rendering an image sequence with a video

I have a video from a camera mounted on a truck that I'm trying to put a sequence of key map images in the top right corner that track where the truck is, like a bird’s eye view. The video is 29.97fps and 03:39:24 long, my key map sequence of still images is 1fps and of course much faster. I've imported my key map images into a 29.97fps sequence and changed its duration to match the video's 03:39:25 length. When I render it separately, its fine but I can't get them to come out rendered decently together.
I've tried joining them 2 ways:
1) I've pulled the rendered key map into the video's sequence and rendered. Video comes out perfect, key map comes out really blurry from being rendered multiple times but it isn't jumpy.
2) I've pulled in the key map's Premiere composition sequence into the video's sequence and rendered. Video comes out perfect again and the key map comes out crisp and clear but with jumpy line slashes pulsing through it.
*Image is pre-render and render of #2 - Pulling the key map's Premiere composition sequence into the video's sequence and rendered. Video comes out perfect and the key map comes out crisp but with bad jumpy line slashes pulsing through it. which you see in the overlay of the outcomed rendered.
*Both video and key map are being rendered with lower field progressive scanning. Which seems like its the problem (because of the jumpy line slashes) but only when they are together. Separately they are fine.
I'm still learning the rules of video so please feel free to point out what I'm doing wrong or if you need any more information to go on.

Thanks Jim for your suggestion but I would be going from 219 images to thousands of images and the animation of the key map doesn't need to be so detailed.
My Solution:
Since my key map rendered out fine by itself, I re-did my #1 trial from above but this time exporting it as an uncompressed AVI. The results once placed over the main clip aren't perfect, its still a little blurry from rendering twice and still getting interpolation lines but its much better then before/acceptable for its use.
Thank you again Jim for your response I did some searching around on Interpolation and am just a little bit more aware then I was before

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