Quality of imported LiveType .movs

Why is imported LiveType low quality when I input into FCE, when it is fine before importing and opening it in quicktime. It goes really grainy once it is placed into my sequence? Have I got the settings wrong. I chose the Apple Int. Codec and HDV1080i, which is the same FCE is set to. Also, I noticed that the imported livetype is 4:3, how do I make it 16:9? Thanks

Ok, I think I just fixed it, I just changed the export setting from the Apple codec to H.264 and that seemed to work

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