Slow Motion Looks Bad

Hi,
I have FCE 4, and in my movie, i have slow motion. However, when I create a master sequnce, the slow motion looks jerky because my video is sd and the master sequnce is HD, but the sequence needs to be HD because I have pictures, and the pictures look better in HD. Does anybody have a fix for this? PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!

There isn't much you can do if the video has to be in the same sequence as the still images. Remember though when you go to DVD it's going to all be back to SD. Your HD might look better in FCE and might produce a better result when compressed in iDVD, but I don't know if it's worth the damage you're doing scaling up the SD video a huge amount.

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