Bad looking text going from Motion to Flash

I'm creating a project in Motion which the client wants to play in Flash.
My work flow is 1) Export from Motion (uncompressed+animation codec) 2) Open in Quicktime 3) Export to .FLV using the Flash encoder (highest Quality)
Everything looks fine but I have red text on a white background and it is dithering horribly.
Any suggestions are appreciated--
Thanks

hi,
two things really, flash can look really horrible depending on the data rate you've used to create it. So you could try upping that until things look crisper. Obviously then you get bigger files.
Also red text on a white background is notorious in video for looking crap. Personally I would try any one or all of the following:
change the colour of the font/ and or the background.
change the font, and its size.
change everything.
or and another thing, why export out to to a quicktime from motion. Why not use compressor from motion to create the .flv. I assume you have flash and all the codecs since you are making the .flvs already.
( on a related note - recently I have had a problem where files created from motion via compressor change fonts - however if i drag the motion file into fcp and export via compressor there its all fine - weird)
hth
adam

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