Screen Captures Look Blurry in Motion

I'm creating lossless screen captures using the animation codec (iShowU) and importing them into Motion3 where I'm resizing them slightly. For some reason they always lose their crisp resolution as opposed to when resized in FCP. They look like they have a light gaussian blur applied, even at 100% screen resolution. The project and export settings seem fine (800x600, square pixel, 8-bit, progressive, 29.97). Even in preview with it set to best, it's blurry when compared to the raw footage.
Is there any way to get around this problem?
Using latest version of FCS2. Output is for webcast.

Howdy,
This is a long-shot, but check the Position value of the image. By default, images added to Motion are centered, and depending on the image that can mean a sub-pixel position (fractional pixel values), which would cause more filtering. Check and see if the image is located at a sub-pixel positon, such as 320.5, and try changing it to a whole number.

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