Bad Quality in Canvas and Exported Movie

Hi,
I'm a new user of FCE. I want to use it for presentation of my software on the internet. I have a screencapture video in quicktime format. The resolution is 1008x744px. This quality is perfect.
If i use this Video in a sequenz, the quality in Canvas or in the saved QuickTime Video is terrible.
What can I do to improve the quality?
Thanks for the help...

If you are displaying the whole screen it will look bad and there is no way of avoiding it.
It is caused because your screen is probably 1200 pixels (or more) wide but a DV image is only around 700 pixels wide so you are losing a tremendous amount of detail.
To make matters worse, much of the fine detail on the screen will probably shimmer or flicker because the video is interlaced.
You can reduce this by using the De-interlace Filter but the overall quality of the image will still be poor.
The only way I ever achieved reasonably sharp results was to show no more than half the screen at any one time. If you do that your results will be OK.

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Here is additional information on the problem.
My sequence includes mostly screen captures, but also some other video (settings below) and some JPEGs. The other video and the JPEGs look fine...both in canvas and when I export sequence to quicktime. The screen captures look terrible...text is very blurry. Same screen captures look fine in my viewer, just goes awry when in canvas and export.
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frame size: 720x480 NTSC DV 3:2
pixel aspect ratio: NTSC - CCIR 601 / DV 720x480
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>> I have a collection of about 75 images for which I
need each one
>> placed on a resized canvas, and then exported. I'm
having trouble
>> making a pair of history steps that I can save to
use for a batch
>> operation. Can anyone help, please?
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> Are you saying that you want to layer two images, a
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