Everything I export to Quicktime doesn't look clear anymore....

Hi,
Just recently upgrade to Leopard and did a Erase and Install. Then I installed Final Cut Studio 2.
Before this upgrade, I would make my text titles in Motion. Bring in the Motion project and put it on the timeline. In FCP the text would look pixelated but after I exported to Quicktime and watched the quicktime movie everything was clear.
Now, I still do the same thing. But my Quicktime Movies are not clear..... I mean the video is slightly blurry and the text is not clear.
Do I need to change a setting in FCP, that I was not aware of, before I did a Clean Install?
Please Help...

jmcstu wrote:
this may sound ridiculous, but does the highest quality setting on quicktime effect your video at all when burning it to disk? my videos were once fuzzy until i changed the preferences on quicktime (thanks for that) but when i make an iDVD project and burn the videos on DVD, will they look fuzzy again? like i said, this may some stupid.
Hardly a stupid question. High Quality is only a playback setting (designed to conserve CPU resources) within QuickTime, it doesn't actually affect the source movie quality. The fuzziness you're seeing in iDVD is, most likely, related to the compression iDVD is using to make your DVD.
As far as making your DVD, if you're using Final Cut Pro to edit with, then most likely you also have Compressor and DVD Studio Pro to compress and make DVD with. Though it all might seem intimidating at first, it's a much more adaptable workflow.
To get to your question specifically, not wanting a menu in DVDSP is as simple as deleting the Menu from the Outline tab and setting your Track to First Play. (If that's Greek to you now, it won't be after a quick plunge into DVDSP.)

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