Bad looking text from timeline

My text suddenly looks bad when I export from the timeline to DV...all other codecs are fine. I have used Final Cut for years and I don't remember having this problem. My timelines are usually DV NTSC. This is very mysterious. If I choose the option of Quicktime conversion and output in Pro Res, H.264...or anything, it all looks great. If I choose the Export to Quicktime...or the conversion option using the DV codec, it looks awful. I recently upgraded to FCP 7. Thanks!

Export a self-contained movie of a portion of the Timeline that contains some graphics (File->Export->QucikTime Movie). Open the resulting file in QuickTime Player 7 (located in the Applications/Utilities folder). While the movie is playing, hit command j to open the movie properties. Click on the Video Track section and make sure High Quality is checked.
-DH

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