Ken Burns, De-Interlacing, FCE, iMovie and Adobe Premiere

I've read countless articles, bought lynda training with Larry Jordan, pre-edited photos in Photoshop, done all kinds of experiments with filters and tried other movie editor packages. FCE with the Ken Burns effect is just very tricky and time consuming to make it look good.
I took a single photo that I cannot get to look good using the ken burns effect in FCE and tried it in iMovie '09 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. With iMovie, it simple to do this effect. In Premiere I used the same keyframe principles I learned in FCE.
I exported each of these to a Quicktime movie (self contained and I did not use Quicktime Converter) and then popped them into iDVD, burned a DVD and took it to the TV to compare. iMovie looked great. Premiere CS5 looked even better. FCE looks terrible. I tried every filter with various settings and nothing comes close to the other two.
I get that the photo doesn't have the greatest resolution, it's a jpg and has artifacts but the other two applications had no issue with it and produced great looking video. Is it me or is it FCE? BTW, using version 4.0.1.

Select your sequence (timeline).
Go to sequence settings (command-zero or choose Sequence > Settings...)
Find the Field Dominance menu, and set it to None.
You can check your video quality by setting the Canvas to 100%.
You should probably convert your images to .tiff or .png
instead of .jpg. Here's a thread that goes into some detail:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9816517

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