Suggestions for working with giant stills in Final Cut Pro.

I'm cutting together some video from DVD, and adding a bunch of client stills to make an advertising montage to run on a big screen in his restaurant. The video is in a sequence of 854 x 480, but the stills are huge, some 3504 x 2336. My system really starts to slow down when dealing with these large files. There are about 100. Is the best way to size them all down and put in a new folder? How can I make these more manageable?

Yeah, large stills really can slow things down. Rendering being the big thing. Making them all smaller would be a good way to cut down the render times and sluggishness. Use Preview to resize them. But then you have to redo all the moves on them, if you did any.
Shane

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