Animation in FCE movie

Hello, and HELP
I've been working on a 7-minute company video. I've animated sections of it in Flash CS4 - the logo; customer map, etc. I've tried every-which-way to export the movie, and bring it into FCE. My last attempt converted a png.mov to flv with DVKitchen - and the bit looks great when I bring the clip in, but as soon as I render it, it looks like crap. How can I get the best results with an exported Flash movie??

I set the size of the flash animation to 1920 x 1080, to match the screen size in FCE. The Flash file is set at 29.7, also to match. Best I could get so far is to export a Quicktime movie using Animation; millions of colours; best.
Once it is in FCE, I export the whole movie using Quicktime default - which also seems to work best.
Any animation I am bringing in to FCE ends up being less-than....
I feel a bit lost in the woods here, walking in circles, trying the same things over and over again.... and wishing I knew someone who know more!! Thanks for your time!

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If you really want to dig in deeper look here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1625591&#1625591
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