Best settings to export text and vectors?

please guide me in my frustration.
I'm trying to make a title screen and I find that if I import vectors from AI, the export quality is terrible no matter the settings.
I created a test file in both AI and Premiere Pro.
AI
Premiere Pro comp
exported & captured at 100%
if I import the AI file into AE and export as an uncompressed avi, I get the following result
however if I import that into premiere and export, it's worse than any of the examples above.
I'm clearly missing something, but a week's worth of searching hasn't turned up anything that I haven't already tried.
I've tried using high quality PSD's, PNG, TIFF and nothing improves the quality.
I have the same problem with text.
thanks

OK, I am going to keep track of my steps in this response.
First I created a 4K file in Illustrator CC 2014. Then I slapped some text and some boxes and circles on the screen. Like this:
Obviously the nice clean lines you expect from vector graphics.
So then I exported that image from Illustrator as a PSD. The next step was to import it as is into Premiere Pro CC 2014, just to see how it looks on a 1920X1080 timeline. I imported it as a sequence but I suppose I could have flattened it. I also imported one of the videos from my codec testing that was 1920X1080 at 23.976 fps. I used that to create the sequence.
This is a partial screen shot of how it looks in Premiere Pro in the Program Monitor at 100%. What I did was to use the new Set to Frame Size which automatically resized it using the Motion effect to 10.9 percent of scale.
As far as I can tell the straight lines are perfect, the curved look fine, and the text? Well, not exactly perfect, but probably acceptable. A drop shadow would probably help.
So the next step is to export it to H.264 and play it on my TV using a thumb drive. If that looks OK, I will upload it to YouTube.
While I am waiting for it to export, I can tell you that the size I used for the Illustrator file was way too large. I only wanted to make things about four times too big, not 9 times as big. That is something you will have to decide for yourself. Just how big does it need to be so that when it is scaled down it looks good in Premiere Pro. Too large is just going to slow things down.
It played OK on my TV. Not great, but OK. So I uploaded it to YouTube and it looked OK too. Play it back at 1080p and it looks sharp enough. Not perfect, but sharp enough for most things.
I think that the only way to really test this is with the real logos..
The export settings looked like this:

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