Why do my photos play blurry??

Hello
I have high-resolution images (1600 x 1600 pixels - 300 resolution). When I import them into FCP - they look fine in the viewer and when paused in the canvas. However when I hit play they immediately become blurry. I've tried resizing to 720 x 480, dropping resolution, etc. Any ideas??
Thanks,
Joel
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Shane's Stock Answer #2: Blurry playback
ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL NTSC MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.
1. Disable overlays on the canvas
2. Make sure you've rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24787
Video playback requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the DV data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the DV footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or NTSC monitor routed thru your camera or deck.
Shane

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