How do I make printed music look best?

I'm importing a page of music and am using it (with the same audio) to assist the viewer in following along with the (visable) music. It's just a short selection, less than 20 seconds. My problem is that the sheet music looks poor. It's blurry and seems to be low resolution.
Because I'm creating the sheet music in Sibelius I can export it in an assortment of different options (BMP, PNG, TIFF, EPS, or SVG) and different resolutions. However, the ones I've tried don't look up to snuff.
It seems that whatever I've chosen has not met expectations. Is there a magic formula? How many dots per inch should I use for the creation of the graphic? Should I create the video as 1080p, 720p,  standard resolution? Any ideas are appreciated.
Thank you.

Tom, thanks for the quick reply. I can understand your confusion. There are two different types of material, one is a simple (taller than wide) page. The other is a longer page, possiblty four or five times as wide as it is tall.
What I'm trying to do visually is use the Shapes Generator in FCPX to place a line, circle, and/or arrow in time to the music as it plays on the page. The page on the tall ones will not move. The long ones will be using the Ken Burns effect to "move" along the score, also with Shapes pointing to things in the music (in time to the audio).
Does that make it more clear?
I've been trying PNG from Sibelius but saving it as only 300dpi. Should I save the file as 1080?
Thanks again.

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