Hi John,
As I wrote before, it was HiRes images, either original or treated in PS without resizing and then I worked on a SD TL in FCPX.
After I realised it was much softer, I actually redid it in 720p TL, exported HD, and then scaled it in AE to SD and exported again,
but still, even then the AE export in ProRes was softer and a lot less sharp than the previous export from this project in PPro, even though this export was MP4 and only 100MB and only 640on480.
Greetings,
Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang