Blurry 3D

Hello!
It's been a while since I've used Motion for a project but now that Flash is less popular because of the iPhone and iPad, I have a new Motion project! Yea!
So I'm doing a software product demo in Motion 5 and I've taken lossless screengrabs of the software, put it in Photoshop to crop, then saved as PSD. I took those PSDs into Motion 5 and put them in a Layer. I then created a Light and Camera and I manually key framed the camera to fly into the screenshot.
The problem is the screenshot is very blurry. The dimensions of the screenshot are 970 wide and this is a 1280 x 720 (720P) presentation. I understand if you blow something up a lot, much bigger than its native size, it gets soft, but this isn't bigger than its native and it's very blurry.
Here is a sample (no motion background, etc, so please don't judge the production value ):
http://www.swproductions.com/clients/fred/billing12.mov
This is rendered at Best quality h.264. I exported at a lossless PNG screen and it's just as blurry, so it seems there is a setting or something in Motion making it blurry.
If I make the project 2D and keep the screens at 100%, it's nice and crisp, but 2D software demos are so 2000s.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Scot

OK, so the Outer Glow filter that is applied to the Layer that is the screenshots makes the entire thing blurry when in 3D. Not in 2D, but 3D.
It's great to see that Motion is still a fun application to use in this regard!!

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