'Insert Video' reduces video's quality

(Captivate 7, Win 7)
Hi,
Problem : When I embed an .flv video via Captivate's 'Insert Video' feature (Event video), the video's images and text are pixellated when it plays.
If I drag the same video from the library and put it on the stage, it plays back at excellent quality. However, I then don't get the player controls (need the progress bar for the video) because I don't get to use the skin.
What is the 'Insert Video skin doing to the video to make it pixellated?
I thought it might be a video resolution/size problem, but I've re-rendered the video at a smaller size. Again, when I embed the video in the slide via 'Insert Video,' it the images and text are still pixellated.
Any ideas?
thanks!

Tom,
Honestly, I don't know how I've been editing without using the D key! But you're right, it works. However, when I overwrite in the Primary timeline, the dissolve look very different than when the second clip is on the Secondary Timeline. Here's what I get when the shot is on the secondary:
Here's the Primary:
You can see that in the Primary, the blurs are equally out of focus. However, in the Secondary, the initial shot comes into focus instead of dissolving in a blur, which is incorrect.
When covering an interiew, the "D" command would be one of the most used (at least at this point since the dissolve are weird when I connect the b-roll). I'm puzzled why Apple would't add an icon for "Overwrite" along side the Append, Insert, Connect....?

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actually, i can see in that code that you do still have wmode
transparent stuff in there. if you look just a little before
the ending
script tag, you'll see some. and then it's also in one of the
parameter
tags. in fact, you have the wmode=transparent parameter tag,
but not the
one that the instruction i gave you said to put in! actually,
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least not
completely.
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you. but
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just started wrote:
> courtney (n h c) wrote:
> quick question: when you did the stuff in the link i
gave you, did you
> remember to take out any wmode/transparent stuff that
you already put in
> there?
>
> Yes I did take out the wmode/transparent.
>
> This is the code. Thanks.
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> AC_FL_RunContent(
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>
version=8,0,0,0','width','550','height','367','id','FLVPlayer','src','FLVPlayer_
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>
e=videos/2007_fishing_video&autoPlay=true&autoRewind=true','quality','high','sca
>
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http://www.macrome
>
dia.com/go/getflashplayer','movie','FLVPlayer_Progressive','wmode','transparent'
> ); //end AC code
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> classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
> codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
> rsion=8,0,0,0" width="550" height="367"
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/>
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>
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>
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Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
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actually, i can see in that code that you do still have wmode
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script tag, you'll see some. and then it's also in one of the
parameter
tags. in fact, you have the wmode=transparent parameter tag,
but not
the one that the instruction i gave you said to put in!
actually, it
doesn't look like you followed the instructions i gave you at
all! at
least not completely.<br>
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video from the page
(your code is too messed up for me to figure it out, sorry)
and
re-insert it, then follow the instructions on the link i gave
you. but
you need to do EVERYTHING it says to do, all the way until it
says <strong>"2.
Hiding the <select> element:"<br>
<br>
</strong> if you start fresh and follow those
instructions precisely, i
think it will work!<br>
<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:[email protected]"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">courtney (n h c) wrote:
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you, did you
remember to take out any wmode/transparent stuff that you
already put in
there?
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