Resize stills in Photoshop or FCE?

I have quite a few stills in Photoshop (CS2) which I want to use in FCE. They are large (4600 x 2900 pixels) files. What seems to me to make sense is to open a new Photoshop file using the NTSC DV 720x480 preset (which has the 0.9 pixel aspect ratio), paste a scaled down copy of the image into this file, flatten it, save it, and then bring that into FCE. Of course, I have to do that again for each still. I seem to remember reading somewhere, though, that there are effects that are possible in FCE if you import larger files. Is this true? If so what does it refer to? If there were some advantage to bringing in stills bigger than 720x480, how big should/could they be? Surely, you couldn't have say, a hundred 35MB images you were trying to work with all at once.

The only real advantage to having larger stills in FCE is if you want to apply motion, zoom in on them etc
Even so, I usually double the 720x480 video standard size to do this
Stills don't need to be the size you have and depending on your puter, could really bog things down.
I am not a true Photoshop expert but I know you are able to create a macro in Photoshop that will allow you to do batch re-sizing

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