FCE video quailty and widescreen problems

hello friends!!
im having problems with my video quality... i seems really crappy! i know it might be my camera cause its a cheap canan zr100 but still, is there a setting i can change? or somthing,
also my camera has a 16:9 widescreen, but if i film with that it doesnt come up on FCE in widescreen, it comes out all stretched and stuff? can anyone help??
o yeah, when i but video in slow motion it is all not smooth slow motion, is there a setting or somthing to change?

"im having problems with my video quality... i seems really crappy! i know it might be my camera cause its a cheap canan zr100 but still, is there a setting i can change? or somthing,"
Where are you seeing this?
If it's in the FCE Timeline, how does it look if you pause playback?
"also my camera has a 16:9 widescreen, but if i film with that it doesnt come up on FCE in widescreen, it comes out all stretched and stuff? can anyone help??"
What Easy SEtup are you using?
"o yeah, when i but video in slow motion it is all not smooth slow motion, is there a setting or somthing to change?"
Try the Frame Blending choice from the Speed dialogue box.
How did you get the files you are using into FCE? Something sounds weird.
Al

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To save others time, I will described what I have evaluated quite detailed in the following paragraphs...
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Computer:
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