[Zach Hilton]

You shot it on a Canon XL2? That is an SD camera and you edited your SD footage in an HD sequence. Thus, you are scaling up your footage. So the blurry/pixelated export is correct. It is doing exactly what you are telling it to. To get around this without having to re-edit, you’ll need to import your project into an SD project and remove any scaling that is going on. On export, things should look normal…SD, but normal. HD will only benefit you if a) you have shot in HD or b) you are doing motion graphics or any other resolution independent projects.