Soft Image after rendering

Hi,
First time poster, long time reader.
I shot something in regular 24p mode and edited it in Final Cut Pro HD. After putting on a 1:85 filter and adjusting the framing of the footage, some of the shots went soft. I've noticed that there was also color correction done to some of the shots.
A friend recommended that I upgrade to 5.1 since HD and 4.5 seemed to have bugs in it. I did. Image is still soft. Racking my brain for days. Ca do without the color correct. but framing change is a must.
1. Does anyone know about this problem, or has encountered it before?
2. Is there a way to go around this problem outside of the normal fcp
schematics?
Any help or advice is appreciated.
Thanks,
Marcel

Are you judging any of this on an external monitor, or the computer monitors? Never use the computers monitors to judge quality of your image.
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