Blurry Render - Motion & Final Cut

I'm trying to do a simple video project moving logos around for a charity event on Saturday night - but whether I render out of Motion or out of Final Cut, I keep getting a blurry product. Any ideas?
I'm son Final Cut Studio HD

IF you are watching your clips in Quicktime Player, that can be the reason why it appears blurry.
The default of QuickTime player when showing DV is to display 1 field and double height the image. This is to avoid interlace combing on the non-interlaced computer display.
IF you type cmd-j and bring up the info for your clip, thusly:
In the lower right corner you'll notice the High Quality flag:
Setting it will take you from this:
to this:
Alternatively, you can go into the QuickTime Player preferences and set the default there:
Make sense?
Patrick

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