FCPX Stabilizing or Improving Quality of Poor Video Clip

How do I do both of these things in FCPX:
1 - Stabilize slightly shaky video
2 - Improve its quality. It's slightly pixelated

Stabilisation is for correcting camera wobble and the like - it will have no effect on pixilation.
Can you post a screen grab showing this pixilation?
If you have stretched low-res footage to fill a high-res project, you will get pixilation. What is the video codec and what are your project settings?
(Select the project in the browser, then press Cmd+4 to open the inspector and write the settings down here).
Andy

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