Loosing quality

I have a character recorded in blue screen (with a DV camera) and I was trying to key it in Premiere CS3, but as I was not happy with the results I exported a QuickTime movie (Animation codec) to key it in After Effects. The keying result was perfect, but I noticed that the image of my character in the rendered movie was loosing quality; this face was somewhat out of focus compared to the original imported source.
I cannot figure out why this happened, because the imported Animation movie is perfect.
Can anyone help me?

sergiobn wrote:
and when I run a preview it just looks like just only one field is playing.
That is the correct behavior. AE ever only displays the dominat field associated with a frame. if you need to see the full res, temporarily turn off field interpretation. For masking work this would be advisable, anyways, but in this case you would also have to double the comp framerate, e.g. 50 fps for PAL's normal 25fps, then for rendering, nest that in a comp withg the final frame rate.
Mylenium

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