Exporting A Still Image

I have searched everywhere for some advice on this and I haven't found anything which has fixed my problem.
I have an image which I designed in Illustrator, and would like to use just that one image for my video along with a music track.
Maybe I am exporting the image wrong from Illustrator, however I have tried to use HD wallpapers instead and the quality of the image is always degraded in the exported no matter what settings I try.
Any tips?

Thank you for taking the time to reply to me and help me out.
I have exported from Illustrator in both PNG and JPEG formats.
These are my Sequence Settings:
The way I have tired to export in a H.264 format at 1080p.
I have kept most of the settings as they are in the HD 1080p 23.976 preset. However what I have changed is I have increased the bitrate encoding to VBR, 2 Pass and bumped up the Target bitrate and Maximum Bitrate. The last thing I changed was I selected Maximum render quality.
I am sorry if I am asking stupid questions, however I have only just got involved with video and started to feel helpless so thanks for taking the time to help me.

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