HD or DV sequence for mixed footage

I need some advice from someone who has mixed DV and HD footage. I have a show recorded with DV using a Panasonic DVC-30 and HD24p with a Canon HV20. Both are anamorphic. I need to mix the footage for my final product.
The biggest issue is that when I use a DV sequence and add HD footage to it, the HD footage is unacceptably bad, jagged. I understand it has to lose information in the downconversion, but is there a setting or a filter I can add to tweak this?
If I use an HD sequence, the dv footage is small. If I blow it up to match & render out to DVD, the HD footage looks fine but the DV footage doesn't match.
If i let the camera downconvert, the footage looks just as bad as when FCE does it.
pardon the naive question, but why does the hd footage looks fine when you reduce the size of the window? Shouldn't it suffer from the same type of loss?
I guess I assumed when I shot this (yes I realize I should have done more extensive field tests first) that the downconverted HD footage would look better than it does. Are there tools/filters that do a better job?
Thanks for your help.

It turns out that the HD footage is blown up after all, which accounts for some of the 'jaggies'. If you reduce the hd footage in the dv sequence to about 50% scale it matches. You're right about the canvas rendering being lo-res as well.
Thanks!

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