Very grainy picture after import

When I import my video from my mini dv cam, it looks ok in the event window in the upper right hand corner. However when I drag the clip into the project and play it, it looks terribly grainy. Why such a loss in quality? If I hook my camera directly to the tv, the picture quality is great..

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Because you are connected to a TV rather than a monitor, it could be that the resolution is not set correctly.
Try to set a different resolution for the screen through you Display System Preferences. If you can't see properly, try a boot to Safe Mode (hold Shift while starting) and then open the Display preference panels.
You will have to restart normally, after setting the resolution, to test the change.
If you have a computer monitor, try the monitor. If the monitor exhibits the same problems, I would consider that that particular card is the problem, and would return it.

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