Poor quality, jaggy bitmapped titles - how to acheive good quality results

Using imovie HD and idvd you can achieve half decent results by upping the quality of your exported project.
On completion of your imovie project...
1) select share (to quicktime) (top menu...forgive me if I get the names wrong..typing from memory)
2) change to full quality (quicktime)... save file to location of your choice
You can also choose expert settings and select DV etc.
...this creates a higher quality mp4 file (as opposed to exporting to idvd)
4) on completion of the render, you can drag this file onto your idvd project
If you require even better results, try Final cut studio

Thanks for the response Kevin,
I fully updated as of last week - Premiere 8.1.0, Media Encoder 8.1.0.122 and ran the export again with a brand new Premiere project, dragged into a sequence, export media, selected Quicktime / ProRes 422HQ codec, matched the frame size, pressed queue to open Media Encoder and the started the export. 
Exactly the same results I'm afraid - blocky, pixelated areas on gradients or areas of similar color.
Frustratingly, the free and 6 year old Mpeg Streamclip (v1.9.2) does a much better job, on a par with Final Cut. I don't suppose there's any way to automatically route the export via it?! Where Media Encoder uses 3 or 4 color shades with blocky finite edges, Streamclip and FCP seem to use 6 or 7 shades and the transitions between areas far smoother with visible dithering (you can see this in my original screenshots).
I would say that it seems to do with the source camera and how it's been originally encoded - I've done some further tests with Canon C300 rushes and they seem to convert / export well without problems and yet some blue skies in footage shot on a Sony F55 show some obvious banding (after conversion to ProRes 422HQ) that doesn't appear on the source.
I'm happy to provide the raw H264 mov to see if you are able to get any better results.
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