Video looks bad after capturing

I've got a problem:
I filmed with a JVC GY-DV300E and now I'm capturing the video in FCP 5.1.4. On the camera, the image looks beautiful, sharp, but on my computer, the image looks like the ISO is much too high, grainy and ugly.
My audio/video-settings in FCP are DV PAL 48kHz, I think that's ok.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks.

I used to have a JVC GY-HD100 and the gain switch was right above the power switch so it was easy to reach down and knock the gain when you were switching it on and off. I accidentally knocked it once without realizing it, shot a scene, and it looked great on the LCD. I captured it and it looked terrible. The reason for this is that the LCD screen is far too small to for you to be able to notice issues like that. You'd need an external monitor to see them. A poor man's external monitor can be made from a Windows laptop running Adobe's DV Rack software. I used this once and it was pretty good.
As for fixing the existing footage, you can purchase / download de-grain plugins (I tend to do this stuff in Shake so someone else is probably better equipped to tell you which FCP plugins are best for this) but don't put too much faith in them. They will reduce the grain but introduce softness to the image. The trick is to find a balance between too much grain and too much blur.

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