My high quality video looks terrible in iMovie HD

I rendered several files in Carrara into high quality .mov files, but as soon as I drag them into iMovie HD, they look terrible! They become much less sharp and more pixilated. I was hoping this was just while in iMovie to make it easier to edit, but when I exported/shared it at full quality it still looks terrible. help would be appreciated.

Hi
a. most probably there was a mpeg4 movie in Your .mov container.
iMovie uses streamingDV (13Gb/h of movie)
b. You might test with iMovie'08 course it handles more strange formats.
Yours Bengt W

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