Still photo quality worse after cropping

I've imported tens of photo's (jpeg) in order to make a titlesequence, the photo's appearing as small rectangles on the right side of the screen, the titles on the left. While in full screen the photos are excellent, after cropping they are lousy. How come and what to do? Thanks in advance.
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Hi Tom, thanks for your swift response. I'm stuck with FCE 1.0 and no, i'm not using a monitor because the camera, used as link between computer and monitor, is at school. I'll try using the monitor tomorrow.

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