Exporting to DV PAL

Hello, I need help.
I have final cut express 4 and I am also using Livetipe. When I export a project in full quality the text rendered in the final output file looks really not good. Using the H. 264 compression the text comes out perfect, however if I use the option of exporting in a shelf contained movie the text comes out blurry, fuzzy and not with straight lines, does anyone knows why is this? the same happens when I export it in DV PAL. I thought this were uncompress formats.

Hi(Bonjour)!
FCE is designed to produce TV set content (in PAL, NTSC or HDV). All those format are compressed and you have to monitor your output on a such TV set to judge the quality.
You can export to quicktime (the result is a Final Cut Express movie in the same format as your sequence (remember you can only produce PAL, NTSC or HDV sequences).
You can also export to quicktime CONVERSION to any quicktime codec (like H.264) in any frame size. So if you want to produce a good looking movie for computer use, try to export to h.264 at half the frame size. The result will be acceptable on computer screen.
Michel Boissonneault

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