Clips blur when trimming/moving on timeline?

I'm working with Premiere Pro CS5 and have a weird problem.
I'm outputting a screen grab video, and was consistently having the problem of text on-screen exporting blury/not as crisp as the initial clip. The initial clips is 1080p, 30fps, so it's a quality screen capture. I checked the clip upon import; all is good, the type on-screen in the screen capture is crisp and clean. But! As soon as I trim the clip by pulling the left to adjust where the clip starts, it becomes less crisp (kinda looks like aliasing). I think this might happen too when I move my clip around on the timeline. Any idea why that might happen/how I can avoid it? Gotta have my crisp type.
Thanks!

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