After effects quality

I have exported a video from Premiere CS3 (a character in blue screen) to chroma key it in AFX. I rendered the composition using Microsoft DV option, but I have noticed a loss in quality, The face of the character seems out of focus.
What´s the best codec to use when exporting from AFX to Premiere, or vice-versa?

As Steve said, DV is evil, even more so Microsoft's implementation of it. Not only does it introduce block artifacts, but it also reduces the available chroma range. You should only use it, if you captured the video already this way in Premiere, but even then you would just use Premiere's own stuff, which offers a better quality (within what's possible with DV). If that's not the case, use an losslesssly compressed format like Quicktime with Animation or PNG compression. Even TIFF and Targa image sequences with RLE compression would work without consuming endless disk space...
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