I have a Camtaisa screen capture video thats 1738x1188 (pic 1). I wanted to scale the video down in AE CS6 to fit a little better in a 720p timeline so i could do some simple pans across the image. However, when I scaled down (75%) the image loses a ton of detail and gets quite soft (pic 2). I would think it would get sharper - this seems totally counterintuitive to me and I have tried many options including continually rasterizing and making the layer 3d and scaling but no joy on either. Any ideas on how to scale the image down so it fills more of the 720 comp without losing sharp detail? I'm not zooming in, I repeat... I'm not zooming in - so that's not the issue.
<- sharp
<-soft