Editing Hi8 on FCP 6 looks bad

I edit mini DV from the Panasonic DVX 100B as my main

format in FCP and the quality and finished product look very good.

Recently I wanted to put together a memorial tape

for a family member that recently passed.

I had Hi-8 footage from 3 chip cameras and Hi-8 consumer

camera footage to work with.

Played back directly to a monitor all the footage looks good

especially the 3 chip stuff.

I used the Sony GV-D200 player with mini DV to firewire

to input the footage to FCP and it all of it looks really bad (like 3rd generation VHS)

Since it looks so bad on the timeline I didn't even want to find

out what it would look like going thrpough Compressor and then

DVD Studio Pro.

Is it the Deck? No TBC ?

My Sony pro deck EVO 9850 with TBC is forever down as you

can't get parts any more.

I thought the Mini DV to firewire would be sufficient.

Any suggestions for getting better results??

I had real good results editing the consumer stuff

with the Immix video cube back in the day.

I was looking forward to editing all my years of Hi8 home

movies with FCP but unless there is a different way to

input the footage to FCP I need to find another way to do it.

Thanks.

Kevin