Footage Looses Quality When Imported!?

I worked on footage in Motion from FCP and then when I saved in Motion and went back to FCP the quality was reduced. I then went into Motion and exported it and when I imported the footage and placed the footage in the viewer the quality was normal, but when I dragged it down into the timeline, the quality is reduced even before I render. Any ideas, thanks!

capture footage in iMovie 06, import to FCP...
Why? Why did you capture with iMovie if you are working with FCP?
#20 Using iMovie to Capture for FCP edit
Shane's Stock Answer #20: Using iMovie to Capture for use in FCP.
iMovie handles the media differently from FCP, specifically where audio is concerned. So it is not a recommended workflow. Here's why...
iMovie captures using DV Stream (.dv) standard which does not use timecode. That is a big disadvantage over the way that FCP captures in that you can't go back and recapture the material at a later date if you need to revisit a project.
The DV/NTSC specification (the one FCP uses) also calls for seperate tracks for audio and video, even if you capture it as one clip. iMovie' DV stream format is muxed audio and video, which means that they are tied together (I can't get into specifics because I ain't no engineer or programmer). FCP is a bit more demanding and captures the seperate audio/video tracks, either in a single media file or as seperate video and audio files. With FCP you could capture video only or audio only because each is defined by the DV specs. while with iMovie you can't.
Also, if you drop the iMovie footage into the timeline, your will get the RED render bar forcing you to render the footage in order to see it. You can use either QT Pro or Compressor to convert the .dv footage into DV/NTSC in order for FCP to work with it without needing to render.
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> I maintain a site for a photographer and as he added
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> SWF got to be very large, so I split up the site and
used a main page
> to import the smaller SWF files into a target. However,
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> all my clean crisp images become dull when imported but
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> sharp in the SWF itself. I tied to find all the JPEG
settings and
> push them up but still with no luck. Does anybody have
any insight to
> why this is happening?
>

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