Trouble With Motion In FCP

I am cutting together a slide show using FCP v.5.1.3. When zooming and in particular when I pan across a photo the motion is stuttered.  I have tried down-sizing the resolution of the photos to no result.  I have also tried to make an isolated clip export to QT and still the motion is unsteady.  It seems to be random, some of the move/zooms are clean and steady, other seemingly identical photos are troubled.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thank you,
SC

I Recently created a photo montage of images, with pans and zooms...
They look really great.
You might want to try this see if this helps. (duplicate your sequence) Because of your video, if you choose ProResLT, you'll have to render, but hopefully it won't be a big deal... Dont worry about the editing timebase. Leave the frame size as you have now, if it still stutters, change it to match this, you'll have 3 pixels of black at the top and bottom, but it's no big deal.
If it doesn't help, lets see if anyone else here chimes in.

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