Still images have very low quality

When I import images into Final Cut Express they are pixelated and look very bad. When I open the same image in Preview the image is displayed at full quality. How can I fix this? I am running Final Cut Express 2.0.3.
Thanks for your help
iBook G4 1.2GHz 768MB   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

Yes, I am looking at the output rendered on a monitor.
Are you saying that my vidieo is compresed?
How might I uncompress it?

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