Exporting Sequence quality horrible

Hello, I bought some 720HD (1280x720) video shot on a bluescreen. I started a new project in PPro CS4 to create an alpha channel and to export it as an FLV for use in a Flash project. I have been playing with settings for 2 days trying to get a decent quality export but no matter what settings I choose it always looks muddy and extremely low res. Its not even the same quality of the lower resolutions I could have bought. There has got to be someway to get decent quality in a FLV with an alpha channel.

Well, I need either a FLV with alpha channel or MOV with alpha channel.... To accomplish either are some specific settings.
However, with both I have maxed out the bitrates, the bitrate percentages, the "quality" to "best".... For the FLV I have tried 1 pass VBR, 2 pass VBR, CBR... pretty much everything listed here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/4.0/WS81733643-B4A6-45c5-ABD7-D5A90EB388FC.html
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Bottom line: If the footage looks beautiful IN final cut, viewed at full screen, we KNOW it can look beautiful OUT of final cut, viewed on the same screen. How is this accomplished?
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.MTS
Imported RAW into FCP using Log and Transfer.
Once ingested into FCP (using default ingest settings):
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1920x1080
Upper (odd) field dominance
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Apple prores 422
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Compressor: H.264
Frame rate: Current
Keyframes: Automatic
Data Rate: Automatic
Frame recording: Unchecked
Quality: Best (multipass)
Encoding: Best quality
Export size settings:
I have tried all of the following settings, each with 'deinterlace' checked AND unchecked, respectively. And each with bad results:
1920x1080
1600x900
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Thanks for all the great input everyone.
To your questions:
Jason: I'm using QT 7.7.
Michael: Very helpful thoughts. I did export using quicktime instead of QT conversion and it looks identical - no problem....when viewing the exported file with FCP. When viewing it with QT 7.7, with the settings suggested by David, it's the same old crap I've been gettng all along. I"m new to Compressor and I'm using version 3.5. Can you advise a specific workflow for using Compressor here? As far as customizing QT for FCP color, I assume you mean the option in the Preferences 'Enable final cut studio color compatibility'. This is the only setting I see of relevance...
Russ - Final cut pro DOES accurately show image quality. At full screen view, my footage looks great in FCP. If it can look greatin FCP, it should be able to look great OUT of FCP. The question is just how to use the best compression setting to get the export file size down without sacrificing all that quality.... I'm judging by the monitor because I'm shooting for monitor end-viewership, not TV.
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