Tips for importing graphics into FCP

Hi all,
I am very new to Final Cut Pro, as my experience is as a print designer.
I have to make a very simple slide show and luckily I am working with a friend who has experience with FCP. My job is to set up the graphics that we'll be importing into the app. This will be authored on a DVD and played on a standard television/DVD unit.
Does anybody have any tips on how I should set up the documents I'll be importing? A resolution for the "canvas" I'll be working on? Any particular file formats I should use ( PICT, JPG, etc?...)
Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance.
- John
20' iMAC G5   Mac OS X (10.4.3)   2.1 GHZ // 1.5 GB RAM // Mac OSX 10.4

I suggest you work on graphics with a larger number of pixels than the "base" video frame size - so you can zoom in, rotate and pan around it (known as the "Ken Burns" effect west of the Atlantic, or "Ken Morse" if east of the Atlantic!)
I you don't do this, and you want to tweak the graphic in FCP at all in respect of size, rotation, position etc (or move it, of course) you will lose definition in a big way.
I suggest trying about 2000x1500 pixels.

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