Imported stills become pixellated once dragged into the timeline?

I have a frustrating problem. I have generated a 768x576 pixel image (PNG format) for a PAL project which I import into FCE. When the file is double-clicked in the Browser to view in the Viewer, it looks nice and sharp (Viewer window with 200% magnification):
But when I drag that image into the timeline and render it (all video render options are ticked), it looks pixellated and frankly terrible in comparison:
When exported as a movie it also comes out like this. How do I keep this image looking clear and sharp? What is going wrong?

No, not yet, I'm trying to understand why the same image looks different in the Viewer compared to the Timeline. With a bit more digging and reading, part of the problem is the way image conversions are done between the square pixel computer world and rectangular pixel DV world (I'm sure you're familiar with http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~f76998/video/conversion/>this).
Following the pixel aspect and frame size conversion algorithm exactly in Photoshop, and using Quicktime to convert that to a DV frame, I now get a DV frame that matches the aspect ratio and size of the original PNG image. But the DV image still looks much softer and more pixellated than either the original PNG image or the Photoshop processed image.
To my simple brain, I don't see why the DV encoding algorithm should cause so much image degradation when applying the same algorithm in Photoshop produces a much crisper result. Do DV codecs use poor image resampling algorithms or something?
Is there any way to produce a crisper image in DV?

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