Troubleshooting with pictures

Hello. I have been working for a while now with final cut for home videos. I like to add pictures to my videos but I am having big problems with the resolution (very low definition). Sometimes when I add pictures they come out really defined but sometimes they are a mess looking like very low quality pictures. I have tried several things: different resolution (pixels) in a picture (2 mb, 1.5 mb, 800kb...), I ave tried reduing the picture in photoshop, making a .mov in imovie with the pictures and they still look really bad. The thing is, sometimes they look great!
Is there something I can do to solve this?
Thank you, I would really appreciate help.
Adriana

First make sure you have the photos rendered fully in FCP; make sure all the render types under the Sequence->Render menus are checked. It also helps to be viewing your work in FCP on an external TV monitor. The Canvas window only outputs a proxy of full quality.
As for what constitutes "bad" ... that could be from not being rendered or in how you're viewing, or it could be something in the images themselves. For example, thin horizontal lines or tight patterned clothing in an image can flicker when viewed on TV. Blurring the lines or pattern slightly in Photoshop can help. Images that are too high resolution will often have what I call 'mosquito noise.' Reducing the resolution and/or adding a bit of blur to the entire image can help in those instances.
The point is that different problems call for different solutions. There's no one fix for all problems. The best thing to do is to bring the images into your FCP project and place them on the Timeline. View them on your TV monitor to see and identify what specific problem each photo may have. Once you identify the problem, you can find the cure.
-DH

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