Photos blurry when exported to Quicktime

When I export an album to Quicktime the pictures are fin right when they come up but then it is like they "snap" into place and become slightly blurred. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? Or what is causing it?
Thanks

What is the ultimate destination to view these images? If it's a TV, then have you taken a look yet to see how they display on a screen that does not have the resolution that your monitor is capable of? When you made the QuickTime movie, did you try to see if any of the optional settings produced an image more to your liking? But to make any reasonable choices, you'll need to know what the final destination is going to be, and evaluate how the images look there. An image that looks fuzzy at 1024x768 on a computer monitor may look just fine on the less than 640x480 resolution on a TV screen, and sharpening it up on your monitor won't make a bit of difference when the image is viewed on a TV screen.

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