Imagequality FCP7

Hello,
I posted before because I do have some issues with FCP and AVCHD. Now I am not sure anymore if there really is a problem or if I am just too picky. I feel that the quality of the image is very bad once imported into FCP (I shot on the Panasonic AG AF101)
I am not sure if the image is ok, I could swear it looks like low quality. I recorded the image in PH 1080/50, 0db gain. I Imported the material with FCP7 (log and transfer) and exported as H264 1920/1080. (Result same as ProRes 422 (HQ) in terms of Quality.
Is this picture alright or is there something wrong?
Many Thanks,
http://vimeo.com/35948107

If I understand correctly, you tried both QT Conversion to output an h.264 and a QT Movie export that was transcoded to h.264 in Compressor. And both were unsatisfactory. Correct.
Your initial post in this thread says that you shot PH 1050/50. I don't have any experience with this camera. In that mode, is it shooting interlaced…or 25p in a 50i container…something else?
What were your sequence settings (command 0) and what does FCP report for your clip properties (command 9)?
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