Pixelation when editing/exporting

I'm editing an animated short, which was exported from Flash at 1920x1080 as an H.264 mov. The source video looks fine. Final Cut is set to AVCHD 1080i60, but for some reason it's horribly pixelated in many areas, both when editing in Final Cut and when exported to Quicktime. Any idea why?

I set up FC for HDV 720p30, and the same thing happens. I noticed though that on any setting, the quality is degraded slightly as soon as I drag the file into FC, and when I render it gets even worse.
In QT 7:
Imported to Final Cut:
Rendered:
(Sorry for the wall of screencaps)

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