Scaling in Motion blurs video

Hello Fellow FCPX-Users!
I'm trying to make an easy to reuse PiP-Effect with Motion by scaling down the effect source to about 30%. If I apply the effect in FCPX, I noticed that the resulting image get's blurred significantly. If I resize the movie in FCPX directly - the image isn't blurred.
You can try it out yourself very easily: Make a crisp 1080p image (my suggestion: white background, large black text) and resize it in FCPX. Then make a Motion effect and resize it to 30% (in motion). Apply that effect and compare it with a simple FCPX resize. Voila...
Is this a bug, is it as supposed to be and is there another way around? Resizing the picture in FCPX instead of a motion effect is much much work.
Thanks' for reading!
Mark.

Russ H wrote:
Markus.seidl wrote:
H Then make a Motion effect and resize it to 30% (in motion). Apply that effect and compare it with a simple FCPX resize. Voila...
How did you create the scaled image in Motion? Did you use drop zones? Did you export it from Motion or publish it? If you exported, what codec did you use?
Russ
I used the Motion Preset "Final Cut Effect" and applied (Effect Source, Properties, Transformation, Scale=30%).
This is the export (ProRes 422, Default Settings from FCP, Copied Frame with Quicktime and saved it with Preview):
I hope that the apple image processing that takes place (when uploading the images) shows the effect. The left PiP is the resize in FCP, the right PiP is using the motion effect. Both have the scale adjustement to 30%. The source material is a plain PNG.

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