Using still images in PP CS6?

Hi all, newbie to this forum so hello, happy christmas and love to the lot of ya haha
I am trying to make a video for my girlfriends artwork so am using purely still images and text but for the life of me, i cannot get the pics to show at their correct resolution at all in pp. Even the text i did in photoshop looks suspect. They all seem to be very pixelated, even when i export to movie. The images are all 300 ppi and professionally taken but when in pp, they look like they've been taken on a cheap mobile phone.... not helpful at all.
I'm fairly new to all this movie stuff but i do understand technical speak so don't worry about blinding me with science
Any help would be a god send right now so thanks in advance.

1st, read Photo Scaling for Video http://forums.adobe.com/thread/450798
-Too Large May = Crash http://forums.adobe.com/thread/879967
-And another crash report http://forums.adobe.com/thread/973935
2nd, after your pictures are properly scaled, you need to realize that 300dpi for photo printing has nothing to do with the resolution of a DVD screen... which is, I think, 72dpi... Link to DVD Demystified FAQ http://forums.adobe.com/thread/544206
If you want higher resolution, you need to use a HiDef BluRay disc

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