Blurry text upon Compressor export

Finished a feature film, and exported through Compressor. Using fairly large font sizes in the movie, but upon export through Compressor and subsequent disc authoring, all the text throughout the movie (opening credits and end credits)gets blurry. Not like super blurry, but, like, say, the bottom of a line of text, almost like compression artifacts or something. When the DVD is paused, the problem clears up, and the text is almost as crisp as it is in the original project in FCP. I feel like I have overlooked a simple setting somewhere, like a field dominance setting or something.
Thanks in advance.
-van

I have never liked the results from FCP's built in title tool.
Have you tried LiveType? I always get nice crisp titles with it. You can combine different typefaces, do neat animation, textured backgrounds and stuff with it. LiveType gives you a file that uses the Apple Animation codec.
For scrolls, Photoshop is a good choice. What I do is start with a PS Film & Video preset and increase the vertical Canvas size to fit all the text into one document. If I have more text, it can be increased further.
Saved as a Tiff with transparency, it will composite automatically and a simple start and end keyframe applied in the Motion tab is all that is needed.
There are some excellent tips on titling [here|http://library.creativecow.net/articles/hodgetts_philip/titles>.

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