Best export codec for details

I have some footage we shot of a guy against a green screen. It looks fine in premiere but so far any kind of codec I try to use to export the movie ends up losing a lot of detail. It just ends up with a very soft, somewhat blurry look to the guy. I've noticed this before whenever I've tried to export from premiere. What is the best codec to use to keep as much detail as possible? Thanks.

Nevermind. After much experimenting I found it was due to exporting at the wrong pixel aspect ratio.

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