Export quality in quicktime

I know I'm not the first to ask about this but I'm still a bit confused after reading various posts. It seems that my Livetype movie is crystal clear upon exporting it from livetype but it becomes pixelated once inported to FCE. I know, this is the low res aspect of FCE in the canvas. Then, once I export the whole project from FCE to quicktime it is still fuzzy and pixelated. I understand that viewing on a video monitor would give me the results I'm after but my project only has web implications at this point and I have no need for the clarity on a dvd or video. I have accomplished the desired results by using no compression or photo jpeg but the resulting file is too big for web use. So the short answer to my long question is whether or not livetype is an application for use on the web and if so, what render/export values should I be using? I just can't get that type clear with a reasonable file size in a quicktime movie.

Alan,
What I write now may be redundant, but I'll add it just incase.
Everything looks fantastic in Livetype since it uses the Animation Codec.
If you then bring this into FCE and render it in a sequence it will get rendered to the DV codec. UNfortunatley the DV codec is no where near as good as the Animation codec; quite highly compressed. So whether you are checking your output in FCE on the Canvas or on a TV Monitor you will not get anything as good as you do in Livetype with the Animation codec.
Then, if you export from FCE to something else you will be compressing a already compressed codec further.
NOTE: In FCP you could get better rendering of Livetype titles if you were going to tape, DVD, etc since you can use better DV codecs such as DVPro, etc which aren't as compressed.
If you can go direct from a Livetype movie to Quicktime conversion that might help somewhat (miss out the DV compression in FCE). However, again, a web codec will not be as good as the animation one for quality of display
OR you could try a HDV setting in FCE, if you need to edit the Livetype title in with something else. Then export to web.
It'd be nice if there was a way of combining codecs in one Quicktime file for web delivery. I.e. encode the video in H.264 and perhaps leave the titles uncompressed. I don't know if this is technically feasible though

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