Hi David, thanks for responding.
I’m solely using photoshop stills. As it will be used for the internet it will be a progressive output.
I just found out it’s a bug allright:
I copied a scene and pasted it into a new project file using all exact the same settings. The quality was much, so much better.
To further improve the quality I selected ‘custom’ for rendering and turned off ‘high quality resampling’ which improved the details.
As a result you might end up with some moiré effect but I’ll deal with that in FCP postediting, as FCP generally f*&%s up the quality even more.
Apple really ought to sort their software out as it isn’t the first bug I’ve encountered, and I don’t even want to talk about FCP…
I hope I can help others out this way. I’m finally at peace with myself and ready for a good night’s sleep. Got a lot of copying and pasting to do tomorrow… thanks Apple…