Working with HD mp4's

Hey Everyone:
I am trying to cut up a mp4 file (HD quality) and when I export out of FCE I always comes out looking like crud. The files specs are:
Dimensions: 1258x720
Codecs: H.264, AAC, Hint, MPEG-4, ODSM, MPEG-4 SDSM.
Channel Count: 2
Total Bit Rate: 7134
FCE renders the whole thing before I can really work with it, and then when I export what was once high quality video is now ugly.
Any ideas?

1258 is not a video format. 1280x720 is. Nor is H264 a production format. It's for delivery. What format sequence are you working? The image is being scaled in some way to fit a standard format. Where are you looking at the output? You need to see it on a video monitor or at 100% in the Canvas.

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