PSD file looks blurry after render

Hey all,
I've got a PSD logo (CS2) with an alpha channel. I'm dropping it on top of video (DV NTSC) with a Magic Bullet filter applied to the video. The PSD file looks crisp on the computer monitor until I render. Then it looks like I've applied a gaussian blur to the PSD file. I'm not working with an NTSC monitor so I'm not sure what's going to happen when I print to video. What's causing this?

The codec you are working with. A nice sharp image, when rendered in the DV codec, for example, will get VERY soft.
But you need an NTSC monitor to really see what it looks like.
Shane

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