My Videos Export in Terrible Quality

I have a video project I'm working on, I've finished it and went to export as .wmv and .mov . When it finished exporting, I watched the videos, the quality was terrible. Any part of the video that had a lot of motion would look "liney". I've posted the videos so you can see what I mean. I realize that there are sections of the video that are un-rendered, I've taken care of that.
http://cornerstonemin.org/myvideo/Hava Java.wmv
http://cornerstonemin.org/myvideo/Hava Java.mov
How can I fix the problem, it's not when I import it because I use iMovie 6 to import than transfer the clips to FCE4 to work on them and edit. I've tried importing through FCE4 but it doesn't make a difference in video quality.

your links seem broken… but, you said they seemed liney… maybe you forgot do de-interlace.
de-interlacing makes your video so that it's proper for viewing on a computer screen.
there are two ways to de-interlace you footage in Final Cut Express:
1: doubble click on one of the clips to bring it into the viewer, then go to Effects —» Video Filters —» Video —» De-interlace. You can then copy and paste that filter to all the other clips in your video.
2: export using quicktime convertion, select quicktime movie, and then click options, click on size, and click "de-interlace source video"

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