Crawling text looks messy on the DVD, almost like I've got double-vision...

Hi, I just finished a Showreel of all my work, put together in Final Cut Pro.
I exported it as a Quicktime movie and then used Toast 6 Titanium to burn it onto DVD using the 'High Quality' option.
The footage has come out fine but one thing concerning me is some crawling text I have going across the bottom of the screen; when I read it, it's like I've got double-vision, it just looks messy and not very sharp at all.
Why has this happened and how do I resolve it?
I'm sending this Showreel out to potential employers and something like this won't look very professional.
Thanks for any help,
Alex Wilding

I'm not sure how to correctly describe the "creepy" effect that results from vertically animating the text generators in FCP, but they seem to always be there. There are also compression artifacts that add to this that result from the DV compression, if that is the codec you are using.
One way I solve the first issue is to create my credit rolls in photoshop as a very tall layer, and animate that in FCP. It's a little more tedious, but the results are much better.
If I need to work in DV, and experience DV compression artifacts, I will create my credit roll in an uncompressed sequence and export to a self-contained movie to re-import to my DV sequence. FCP seems to do better at rendering uncompressed video to DV than it does at rendering the composite of your text and background directly to DV.
hope this helps

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