Importing graphics into FCE

Hi
I'm trying to draw with a vector graphics drawing program and export to FCE... but the graphics do not look quite right in FCE... Well actually they look OKish in the viewer but wrong in the canvas...
Can anyone help?

If by wrong you mean low quality, you must keep in mind that DV has a much lower resolution than any graphic you may create.
What you see in the viewer is the original file, even though adapted to the viewer window size. When editing the graphic to the timeline, the DV codec is applied and you can see the result in the canvas: this is usually worse than the original, for graphics.
As a suggestion you should always check the resulting quality of your editing, by connecting an interlaced monitor (e.g. a TV) to your Mac using the firewire port and a D/A converter (or your camcorder). What you see in this case may be better (or sometimes worse...) than in the canvas; but at least you can tune your editing and effects in real time. This of corse if tour movie will be burned to a DVD or played directly to a TV.
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