Quality of Stills Zoomed In

CS5. I've imported some high quality large jpegs as well as some uncompressed tif files. I tried exporting them from Lightroom at various resolutions from 72 up to 360) I was expecting them to be tack sharp as I zoom into them in PP, but they are soft--not nearly as sharp as they are zoomed in in LIghtroom (or Photoshop). Am I doing something wrong--shouldn't I expect the same zoomed in sharpness if the files are large enough (they average 3500x2500 or so)
Thanks, Michael
I just looked at the problem again and it has nothing to do with the zoom. As soon as place an image in the timeline and look at the program monitor the image is degraded.. I tried exporting to an avi file and the image is still soft... ???

There was a post on another thread some time ago. I don't remember who made it. The poster provided a workflow for scaling an image in PS. It involved converting the image to 16 bit sharpening the image (settings 200, 0.5, 2) with actual image size view. Do any color manipulation. Then using the crop tool, crop to the desired size 720 x480, 1440x 1080, etc. Before saving the image, reset the mode to 8 bit (as PrP cant input 16 bit, and save as a *.PSD.
I saw a significant improvement in image quality in this manner.
When looking at the program monitor, remember that images may need to be rendered. If image quality is set to automatic, PrP may be degrading the image in the interest of maintaining the video frame rate.

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