JPEGS loosing quality from viewer to canvas

I have been editing dance recitals for years. I always import jpegs of the dancers to use during the credits. For some reason the JPEGS look terrible in the canvas window. They are crisp and clear in the viewer window but they get all blurry in the canvas window when placed in the movie timeline.
I have done the same exact thing for years and have never had this problem. I am using the same computer, same version of Final Cut Express. I have rendered them, tried .tiff files, nothing seems to make them look better. I have even burned the movie hoping I was missing something, but they are blurry in the burned movie as well.
Any assistance would be great!

When you load an image or clip from the Browser to the Viewer window, it displays at the native resolution of the image or clip. However, once you place an image or clip in the Timeline, it will only display at the resolution of the Sequence settings.
Make sure that the images are fully rendered; check to see if FULL is activated as a render type under the Sequence->Render menus.
-DH

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Anyway here is the video with its poor image quality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_oMNzXAZ8Y&feature=youtu.be
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Thanks for following up Chris - I apologize for any lack of detail in my posting.
Yes, I am mostly talking about quality concerns with menus though this is not specified in the title of the post. I understand that there is always loss in general quality when compressing as mpeg2, but to be more specific than before, text quality in the menus looks too artifacted around the edges. My client has described it as being "not sharp" and/or blurry.
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