1080p footage looks horrible in 720p timeline

Hello! I have 1080p footage that i want to bring into a 720p timeline. When i bring it in, scale it to 75% and render, the result is horrible! What is a recommended workflow to use 1080p footage in a 720p timeline?
Thanks!
Kyle

"Horrible" is relative, a bit meaningless.
Since we don't know how much you understand about what you're doing, or what you expect as far as quality, or where you are viewing your results, try not to take this personally.
You are throwing away a full 35% of your pixels so, yes, it's going to look a bit soft. Additionally, you are squooshing all of those lost pixels into new mooshy pixels.
The only way to maintain a pixel-to-pixel relationship is not to scale you footage but to crop it. Anything else compromises the image quality because of the processing. You must be viewing your rendered output on a full resolution monitor suitable to the task before deciding your scaling or processing operations are really "horrible" or they just appear that way as an artifact of the presentation.
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