Photos sharp in viewer, blurry in canvas

I have a project that intersperses photos with live action. The photos are variously digital shots (jpeg) and scanned shots (tif).
I select a photo in the browser, double click to open in the viewer, set the duration and insert in to the sequence. The photo is now visible in both the viewer & canvas windows - in the viewer it is sharp, in the canvas slightly blurry.
The output (on DVD viewed on a TV) is 'acceptable' (more blurry than I'd like) and I've lived with it for a while, but I was wondering why the apparant quality loss?
I've tried converting both types to .psd with the same results. Any help appriciated.
Thanks.

I have experienced this problem and have used the following:
If the still image is adjusted in the Timeline, by using the motion tab in the viewer, which changes the pixels within the image (eg., changing the scale, aspect ratio or rotation) this sometimes causes significant blurring. To avoid that, I make my images at least 144 pixels per sq. inch (2 x 72 which is the resolution of DVD video). This (I think) allows the extra pixels to be used in the changing rather than new interpolated pixels being created by FCE. However, if the image is simply moved (left/right/up or down) or is cropped, these do not seem to affect the image quality.
If the image is unacceptably blurry, I find using the Unsharp filter (Video Filters > Unsharp Mask) restores the sharpness.

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Frame Controls: Automatically selected: Off
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Multi-pass: Off, frame reorder: Off
Automatic gamma correction
Progressive
Pixel depth: 24
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Min. Spatial quality: 0
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Here is additional information on the problem.
My sequence includes mostly screen captures, but also some other video (settings below) and some JPEGs. The other video and the JPEGs look fine...both in canvas and when I export sequence to quicktime. The screen captures look terrible...text is very blurry. Same screen captures look fine in my viewer, just goes awry when in canvas and export.
Format of screen capture clips (quicktime 10 screen capture > compressor prores 422 HQ):
1440x900, apprle prores 422 HQ, data rate 5.6 MB/S, pixel aspect square, field dominance none, composite normal. Started with 4 files of the screen capture from compressor, then edited them into many little pieces in FCP...the size of those files post compressor are around 2GB each.
The sequence (by default) had settings of:
frame size: 720x480 NTSC DV 3:2
pixel aspect ratio: NTSC - CCIR 601 / DV 720x480
field dominance lower(even)
quicktime compressor settings: apple prores 422 LT
Vast majority of clips are the same as screen capture clips. But just in case its part of the problem, I have also have a couple video clips of that have settings:
frame size: 720x480
compressor: DV/DVCPRO - NTSC
data rate 3.6mb/s
pixel aspect: NTSC - CCIR 601
field dominance: Lower/even
also have a couple JPEGs, their settings are:
frame size 2500x2084
compressor: photo-jpeg
field dominance: none
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How to rearrange single photo in grid view
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This seems like a silly question, but my library was imported and one photo out of 1000 shows up at the beginning in the grid view. I'd like to move it to the correct chronological location so it fits in with all the the others.
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DonRicklin - 9:53am Sep 12, 07 PST (#14 of 17)
Drag from center of image not frame, if you aren't doing so already.
Don
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birgit ha - 9:57pm Sep 20, 07 PST (#15 of 17)
I use LR 1.2 on a mac. I can arrange/drag photos when they are in library in all photographs, quick collection.
As soon as I put them in the categories/keyword tags (in library) I can"t sort them anymore. Sort by user, drag them from center..... nothing works.
anybody can help??!!! pretty frustrating..
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DonRicklin - 4:16am Sep 21, 07 PST (#16 of 17)
User order only works in Folder or Collection (including Quick Collection) Views. And only the lowest (non Parent) level unless Menu/Library/Include Photos from Subitems is unchecked.
Don
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birgit ha - 7:57pm Apr 8, 08 PST (#17 of 17)
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