Exported QTmovie quality doesn't look good at all..

I've composed, graded, and edited my sequence within FCS and just now exported it as a QT movie file.
It looks WAY less quality than the original movie file which was encoded with Compressor to Apple ProRes 422 (HQ).
Let me explain about my workflow and please tell me what I am missing here.
1. Shoot with Canon 5D Mark2 at the highest quality
2. Encode the files to Apple ProRes422 (HQ)
3. make a sequence and send to Color
4. Create two grades, G1 is in color and G2 is in B&W, render and send back to FCP
5. make a new sequence, put G1 in track v1 and G2 in track v2, bring it to Motion
6. in Motion, change the top layer's blend mode to exclusion, save it and export as QT movie
7. import the exclusion sequence to FCP, make a new sequence with it
8. Now, v1=exclusion movie(background) and put v2=original color clips(showing part of it), send it to Motion
9. Compose two layers with bezier mask putting some feather around
10. Save it in Motion and export it in FCP as Apple ProRes 422 (HQ)
The final output looks bad. Especially, the feather and graded parts looks choppy and not smooth.
Information of the files before and after is almost the same except output file has *Integre (Big...)* right after Apple ProRes 422 (HQ)...
I will look into details and all the settings but if you think of anything please let me know.
Where to look and what should be set ...etc.
I'd really appreciate your input! Thanks in advance.

Hi Nick,
Thanks for the link but it doesn't seem to apply my case.
I've already set the QT preference and I use Leopard+FCP7.
Maybe, I am using too much of Motion/Color for composing, layering, masking etc?
All the integration cause that kind of result??---Lesser quality export.
Please let me know what I should keep in mind most when I want to integrate FCP/Color/Motion, going back and forth.
I'd appreciate any advice from you!

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